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Amebiasis - Balamuthia mandrillaris Life Cycle
1) Cysts
2) Trophozoite
3) Mitosis
4) Amebae (cysts and trophozoites) can enter humans
Amebiasis - Balamuthia ... trophozoites) can enter humans ... #Amebiasis #Balamuthia ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite
Amebiasis - Acanthamoeba Life Cycle
1) Cysts
2) Trophozoite
3) Mitosis
4) Amebae (cysts and trophozoites) can enter humans in
Amebiasis - Acanthamoeba ... trophozoites) can enter humans ... #Amebiasis #Acanthamoeba ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite
Amebiasis - Naegleria fowleri - Life Cycle
1) Cysts
2) Trophozoite
3) Flagellated Form
4) Promitosis
→ Water-related activities such as
Amebiasis - Naegleria ... occasionally in CSF #Amebiasis ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite
Cysticercosis - Taenia solium Life Cycle
1) Eggs or gravid proglottids in feces and passed into environment.
2)
cysticerci. 5) Humans ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite
Cyclosporiasis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Pathogen: 
 • Cyclospora cayetanensis
 • Foodborne, waterbone, and soil-transmitted.
 •
intracellular parasite ... • Humans are ... Established via stool microscopy
Anisakiasis - Life Cycle
Anisakis, Pseudoterranova, Contracecum
1) Definitive hosts excrete unembryonated eggs in
2a) Eggs become embryonated in
Transmission to humans ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite
Clonorchis sinensis (Chinese or oriental liver fluke) Life Cycle

The trematode Clonorchis sinensis (Chinese or oriental liver
Infection of humans ... liverfluke #LifeCycle #Parasite ... #CDC #Diagnosis
Filariasis - Wuchereria bancrofti
30 yo F from India presents w/ painless immobile firm mass on the
Humans are definitive ... ://www.cdc.gov/parasites ... #photo #smear #microscopy
Fever After International Travel

Infectious Disease:
• Endemic in either the destination or home region

Viral Syndromes:
Arboviral infections, a
Salmonella typhi Parasitic ... Investigations: • CBC ... dipstick test, microscopic