Statistics for Parasites 3

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What organ is the host to the first stage of malaria?	Liver	86%
What family of mammals is the definitive host of toxoplasma?	Cat	79%
What type of cell is affected by the next stage of malarial infection?	RBC/Red Blood Cell	79%
Whati is the most common species causing malaria?	Plasmodium falciparum	64%
What is the name for the flagellated form of leishmani found in the sand fly?	Promastigote	57%
What type of cells does the ovoid non-flagellated amastigote occupy in the human host?	Macrophage	50%
What form of visceral leishmaniasis may be fatal if left untreated?	Kala-azar	14%
What is the name for the DNA holding centre?	Kinetoplast	14%
What is the name for the part of a apicomplexan parasite that controls motility and host cell invasion?	Apical complex	7%
Using this complex a compartment for the parasite can be formed inside the host cell what is it called?	Parasitophorous vacuole	7%
There are three key organelles in this area, these are micronemes, dense granules and what third?	Rhoptries	7%
What is the natural mamalian host of L.braziliensis	Sloth	7%
ROP18 is a kinase that protects these compartments, what internal immune molecules does it protect it from?	IRGs/Immune Related GTPases	0%
What carbohydrate is the outside of the parasite covered in as a means of protection?	Lipophosphoglycan/LPG	0%
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) .	Merogony	0%