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==<font color="purple">Cryptosporidia</font>== | ==<font color="purple">Cryptosporidia</font>== | ||
==<font color="purple">Giardia</font>== | ==<font color="purple">Giardia</font>== | ||
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| + | !width="400"|'''Question''' | ||
| + | !width="400"|'''Answer''' | ||
| + | !width="150"|'''Article''' | ||
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| + | |<big>'''What is the key points of the life cycle and prepatent period of ''Giardia''?''' | ||
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| + | *'''''Simple life cycle''''' | ||
| + | *'''''Direct life cycle''''' | ||
| + | *'''''Reproduce by binary fission''''' | ||
| + | *'''''5-6 day prepatent period''''' | ||
| + | ||[[Giardia#Life Cycle|<span title="Answer article">Link to Answer Article</span>]] | ||
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| + | |<big>'''How do both people and animals become infected by ''Giardia''?''' | ||
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| + | *'''''Water bourne transmission''''' | ||
| + | *'''''Direct faecal-oral transmission''''' | ||
| + | ||[[Giardia#Epidemiology|<span title="Answer article">Link to Answer Article</span>]] | ||
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| + | |<big>'''How would you diagnose a ''Giardia'' infection?''' | ||
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| + | *'''''The cysts are heavy and do not float well in saturated sodium chloride solution''''' | ||
| + | *'''''Cysts excretion is intermittent so faeces need to be collected and sampled over 3 days''''' | ||
| + | *'''''Cyst antigen can be detected in faeces by an immunoassay''''' | ||
| + | ||[[Giardia#Diagnosis|<span title="Answer article">Link to Answer Article</span>]] | ||
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==<font color="purple">Piroplasmida</font>== | ==<font color="purple">Piroplasmida</font>== | ||
==<font color="purple">Tissue Cyst Forming Coccidia</font>== | ==<font color="purple">Tissue Cyst Forming Coccidia</font>== | ||
==<font color="purple">Tropical Protozoa</font>== | ==<font color="purple">Tropical Protozoa</font>== | ||
==<font color="purple">Other Important Protozoa</font>== | ==<font color="purple">Other Important Protozoa</font>== | ||
Revision as of 16:41, 7 January 2009
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Protozoa
| Question | Answer | Article |
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| What are the four different ways protozoa can move? |
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Link to Answer Article |
| How do protozoa reproduce? |
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Link to Answer Article |
| Briefly summarise the life cycle of protozoa |
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Link to Answer Article |
Coccidia
Cryptosporidia
Giardia
| Question | Answer | Article |
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| What is the key points of the life cycle and prepatent period of Giardia? |
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Link to Answer Article |
| How do both people and animals become infected by Giardia? |
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Link to Answer Article |
| How would you diagnose a Giardia infection? |
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Link to Answer Article |