PROTOZOANS
Pathogenic ameba
Name: Entamoeba histolytica
Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Precyst
C. Cyst
C-1. Uninucleated cyst
C-2. Binucleated cyst
C-3. Quadrinucleated
cyst
Commensal ameba
(A) Name: Entamoeba coli
Stages:
A. Trophozoite
B. Precyst
C. Cyst
C-1. Quadrinucleated
(B) cyst
C-2. Binucleated cyst
C-3. Uninucleated cyst
C-4 . Octanucleated
Mature cyst
(C)
C-1 C-2 C-3
C-4
Name: Entamoeba hartmanni
Stage:
A. Trophozoite
.
Name: Entamoeba polecki
Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Cyst
Name: Endolimax nana
Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Cyst
Name: Iodamoeba butschlii
Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Cyst
Name: Entamoeba gingivalis
Stage: Trophozoite
Free-living ameba
Name: Naegleria fowleri
Stage:
A. Amoeboid
B. Flagellated form
C. Cyst stage
Name: Balamuthia
mandrillaris
Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Cyst
Acanthamoeba species
Name :Acanthamoeba
castellani(most common)
Stage : Cyst
Intestinal flagellates
Name: Giardia lamblia
Stage:
A. Trophozoite(Front)
B. Trophozoite(lateral)
C. Cyst
Name: Dientamoeba fragilis
Stage: Trophozoite
Name: Chilomastix mesnili
Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Cyst
Name: Enteromonas hominis
Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Cyst
Name: Retortamonas
intestinalis
Stage: Trophozoite
Urogenital flagellates
Name: Trichomonas
vaginalis
Stage: Trophozoite
Name: Trichomonas tenax
Stage: Trophozoite
Ciliates
Name: Balantidium coli
Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Cyst
Malarial parasites
(A) (B) Name: Plasmodium ovale
Stage:
A. Ring form (early
trophozoite)
B. Developing trophozoite
(C) (D)
C. Immature schizont
D. Mature schizont
E. Microgametocyte
F. Macrogametocyte
(E) (F)
Name: Plasmodium
(A) (B) falciparum
Stage:
A. Ring form (early
trophozoite)
B. Developing trophozoite
C. Immature schizont
(C) (D)
D. Mature schizont
E. Microgametocyte
F. Macrogametocyte
(E) (F)
Name: Plasmodium vivax
Stage:
A. Ring form (early
trophozoite)
B. Developing trophozoite
(A) (B)
C. Immature schizont
D. Mature schizont
E. Microgametocyte
F. Macrogametocyte
(C) (D)
(E) (F)
Name: Plasmodium malariae
Stage:
A. Erythrocyte
B. Young ring
C. Older ring with
Schuffner’s dot
D. Adult ring (enlarged
cell) with Schuffner’s
dot
E. Chromatin division
F. Further chromatin
division
G. Schizont
H. Mature shizont
I. Female gametocyte
J. Mature female
gametocyte
K. Male gametocyte
Blastocystis hominis
Name: Blastocystis hominis
Stage:
A. Vacuolar form(Left)
and granular form
(right)
B. Vacuolar form
PHYLUM ASCHELMINTHES: CLASS NEMATODA
Name: Ascaris lumbricoides
Stage:
A. Egg
A-1. Fertilized(surface)
[Link] (median)
A-3. decorticated fertilized
A-1 A-2 A-3 A-4 A-4. unfertilized egg
B. Adult worm
B-1. Male
B-2. Female
B-1
B-2
Name: Trichuris trichiura
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Adult worm
B-1. Male
B-2. Female
(a)
(B-1)
(B-2)
Name: Enterobius vermicularis
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Adult worm
B-1. Female
B-2. Male
(A)
(B-1) (B-2)
Hookworms
Name: Ancylostoma Name: Necator
duodenale americanus
Stage: Stage:
A. Egg D. Egg
A-1. Fertilized E. Larva
egg(schematic) E-1.
A-1 A-2 A-2. Immature Rhabditiform
fertilized egg E-2. Filariform
A-3. F. Adult worm
Unembryonated
F-1. Male
egg
A-4. Mature
embryonated egg
A-3 A-4 B. Larva
B-1. Filariform
B-2. Rhabditiform
C. Adult worm
C-1. female
B-1
B-2
C-1
E-1 E-2
F-1
Name: Strongyloides stercoralis
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Larva
B-1. Rhabditiform
B-2. Filariform
A
C. Adult worm
C-1. Female
C-2. Male
B-1 B-2
C-1 C-2
Name: Capillaria philippinensis
Stage: Egg
Name: Parastrongylus cantonensis
Stage: Adult worm
Name: Trichinella spiralis
Stage:
A. Larva
A-1 Encysted larva in muscles
B. Adult worm
B-1 Female
B-2. Male
A A-1
B-1 B-2
Name: Dracunculus medinensis
Stage:
A. Larva
B. Adult worm
B
Filarial worms
Name: Wuchereria Name: Onchocera
bancrofti volvus
Stage: Stage:
A. Microfilaria E. Microfilaria
B. Adult worm
B-1. Male
B-2 Female
Name: Brugia malayi Name: MAsonela
A B-1 B-2 Stage: (Dipetalonema)
C. Microfilaria perstans
Stage:
F. Microfilaria
Name: Loa Loa Name:Mansonela
Stage: ozzardi
D. Microfilaria Stage:
G. Microfilaria
C
G
PHYLUM PLATYHELMINTHES: CLASS TREMATODA
Schistosoma spp.
Name: S. Name: S.
japonicum mansoni
Stage: Stage:
A. Egg B. Egg
Name: S. haematobium
A B Stage:
C. Egg
C
Name: Paragonimus westermani
Stage: Adult worm
Name: Fasciolopsis buski
Stage: Adult worm
Name: Echinostoma ilocanum
Stage:
A-C. Adult worm
D. head collar
E-F. eggs
Name: Fasciola hepatica
Stage: Adult
Name: Opisthorchis viverrini
Stage:
A. Adult
B. Egg
C. Cercaria
Name: Clonorchis sinensis
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Adult
B.
PHYLUM PLATYHELMINTHES: CLASS CESTODA
Name: Diphyllobothrium
latum
Stage:
A. Egg (operculated)
B. Adult worm
B-1. Scolex
B-2. Strobilia
A
B-3. mature
Proglottid
B-1 B-2
B-3
Name: Taenia saginata
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Cysticercus Bovis
C. Adult worm
C-1. Scolex
C-2. mature
A proglottid
C-1 C-2
Name: Taenia solium
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Cysticercus
Cellulosae
C. Adult worm
C-1. Scolex
A
C-2. mature
proglottid
C-1 C-2
Name: Dipylidium
caninum
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Cysticercoid larva
A.
C.
Name: Echinococcus
granulosus
Stage:
A. Adult worm
B. Hyatid Cyst
B.
Hymenolepis spp.
Name: Hymenolepis
diminuta.
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Adult
B-1. Scolex
A. B-2. Proglottid
B-1 B-2
Name: Hymenolepis nana
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Adult
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