Medical Parasitology

1.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which one of the following statements does NOT apply to parasites?

they can be free-living organisms

they must live in or on another species

helminths are multicellular organisms

protozoans are unicellular organisms

2.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The term for the animal that a parasite lives on/in is:

Fomite

Micro-organism

Host

Vector

3.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

A person, animal or microscopic organism that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism.

vector

arthropod

parasite

host

4.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Microscopic one-celled organisms that are categorized according to their method of movement

Protozoa

Helminth

Arthropod

Vector

5.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is a definitive host?

An organism that any parasite can live on and reproduce.

The organism that provides conditions that allows sexual reproduction of a parasite to occur.

The organism that parasitic eggs are laid on.

An organism that parasites find easily and allow reproduction of the parasite.

6.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

An intermediate host is _____.

where parasite asexual cycle occurs

always a nonhuman host

where parasite sexual cycle occurs

the human host between two other animal hosts

7.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Malaria is a disease caused by a member of the sporozoa

True

False

8.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which of the following does NOT apply to the trematodes?

They are hermaphroditic

They often parasitize two hosts

They are flukes

They have a scolex and proglottids

9.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

is a life-threatening blood disease caused by parasites transmitted to humans through the bite of the Anopheles mosquito. Once an infected mosquito bites a human and transmits the parasites, those parasites multiply in the host's liver before infecting and destroying red blood cells

Malaria

West Nile Virus

Lyme Disease

Leshamaniasis

10.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

How does an amoeba move?

It uses cilia

It uses flagellum

It uses pseudopods

It cannot move

11.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

This protozoan has a two stage life cycle in which one is called a cyst, and causes dysentery.

Entamoeba histolytica

Foraminiferan Polystomella

Typanosoma brucei

Apicomplexa Plasmodium

12.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which of these protozoan diseases results in intestinal stress and diarrhea?

African Sleeping Sickness

Trichomoniasis

Giardiasis

Malaria

13.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is the function of the scolex of a tapeworm?

To attach to the intestinal wall of the host

To reproduce

To get rid of waste

To carry the eggs

14.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The small segments behind a scolex that reproduce quickly, making a tapeworm longer and longer are called...

Cilia

Hooks

Proglottids

Snaps

15.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Snails are often the _________ host in the fluke's life cycle.

primary

intermediate

secondary

first

16.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

When this internal parasite releases eggs, they are released as proglottids or segments which each contain thousands of egg packets.

Roundworm

Whipworm

Hookworm

Tapeworm

17.

Multiple Select

30 sec

1 pt

method of pork tapeworm transmission

undercooked meat

ingesting contaminated feces

drinking contaminated water

stepping on contaminated feces

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