Parasites 3

What is the name for the flagellated form of leishmani found in the sand fly?

What type of cells does the ovoid non-flagellated amastigote occupy in the human host?

What is the name for the DNA holding centre?

What carbohydrate is the outside of the parasite covered in as a means of protection?

What form of visceral leishmaniasis may be fatal if left untreated?

What is the natural mamalian host of L.braziliensis

What family of mammals is the definitive host of toxoplasma?

What is the name for the part of a apicomplexan parasite that controls motility and host cell invasion?

There are three key organelles in this area, these are micronemes, dense granules and what third?

Using this complex a compartment for the parasite can be formed inside the host cell what is it called?

ROP18 is a kinase that protects these compartments, what internal immune molecules does it protect it from?

Whati is the most common species causing malaria?

What organ is the host to the first stage of malaria?

What is described? The first stage in malaria growth, where the parasite is not a single cell but a mass of dividing nuclei (schizont) which splits to form merozoites (singular parasites) .

What type of cell is affected by the next stage of malarial infection?