entamoeba histolytica

(a) how aquired

(b) where intects/lives

(c)how diagnosed

         (a) injestion

                  -(contaminated food/water)

                  -hand-mouth(fecal-oral)

                  - sexual (feccal)

         (b) g.i.-->travel to liver, lungs, heart cns

         (c)test feces for cysts

intestinal flagella

(a) how aquired

(b) where intects/lives

(c)how diagnosed

(a)drinking contaminated water

(seen with hikers drinking pond water)

(b) stays in g.i. tract (explosive diahrreah)

(c)test feces for cysts (cysts look like a face)

three main ones:

giardia lambda

giardia intestinalis

giardia duodenalis

intestinal ciliate --> balantidum coli

(a) how aquired

(b) where intects/lives

(c)how diagnosed

(a)seen on farms, injestion of contaminaled farm products

(b) g.i., invade the wall of the colon

(c) feces testing (cyst nuclie look like kidney bea)