PARASITIC INFECTIVE Specific MODE OF target TISSUE/ORGAN for CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC

PROTOZOANS STAGE Vector TRANSMISSION multiplication of the parasite SPECIMEN STAGE

Entamoeba CYST DRINK CONTAMINATED LARGE INTESTINE/ Colon STOOL
histolytica WATER SAMPLE
Naegleria TROPHOZOITE INHALATION bc of nose in CSF TROPHOZOITE
fowleri water, CONTAMINATED
WATER
Acanthamoeb TROPHOZOITE CONTACT LENSE W/ CSF corneal
a sp. CONTAMINATED WATER scraping or
biopsy.
Giardia CYST food/water, Hands/Fomites SMALL INTESTINE Stool sample
lamblia contaminated w/ cyst in
poop, FECAL-ORAL?,
Trichomonas TROPHOZOITE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE VAGINA/PROSTATE GLAND URINE sample TROPOZOITE
vaginalis /SMEAR/VAGINAL
SECRETION,
Prostate secretion
TSETSE FLY
Trypomasti
Trypanosoma METACYCLIC BITE OF TSETSE FLY/ BLOOD stream BLOOD
brucei TRYPOMASTIGOTES Reduviid bugs
gambiense gote
Leishmania Promastigote SAND FLY BITE OF SANDFLY Leishmania,donovani(in,humans) BLOOD Amastigotes
donovani stage BLOOD- MONOCYTE SAMPLE~
Leishmania,donovani(in,vector)
DIGESTIVE TRACT: MID GUT~
Balantidium
Coli
Plasmodium Sporozoite FEMALE BITE OF FEMALE Plasmodium sp. (in humans) BLOOD
falciparum ANOPHELES ANOPHELES MOSQUITO blood? Or LIVER
MOSQUITO
Plasmodium sp. (in vector)
DIGESTIVE TRACT of mosquito, BLOODSTREAM?
Cryptosporidi
um
Toxoplasma
Gondii
 PARASITIC PROTOZOANS DISEASE

Entamoeba histolytica AMOEBIASIS

Naegleria fowleri Amoebic Meningoencephalitis

Acanthamoeba sp. Acanthamoeba keratitis, Amebic encephalitis

Giardia lamblia GIARDIASIS , traveler’s diarrhea

Trichomonas vaginalis VAGINALIS / TRICHOMONIASIS

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense Chagas disease/ African sleeping

sickness, Trypanosomiasis

Leishmania donovani Leishmaniasis “Baghdad Boil” (Desert

storm)

Balantidium Coli

Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

Cryptosporidium

Toxoplasma Gondii