INTESTINAL AND UROGENITAL PROTOZOA

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Compiled By:
Kamran Ali (39)
Muslim Hussain (43)

PARASITES
1. Protozoa

a) Sarcodina (amebas)
b) Sporozoa (sporozoans)
c) Mastigophora(flagellates)
d) Ciliata (ciliates)

2. Metazoa(Helminths)

a) Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
b) Nemathelminthes (roundworms)

INTESTINAL PROTOZOA
1) Entameba Histolytica :Life Cycle:
Motile (Trophozoites):

Found within intestinal and extraintestinal lesion and in diarrheal stools.

Non Motile (Cyst):
Predominates in non diarrheal stools.
Highly resistant and are readily killed by boiling but not
by chlorination of water. Removed by filtration of water.
Four nuclei which divide into at trophozoites in the
intestinal tract.

Diseases:
Amebic Dysentery and Liver Abscess
Symptoms:
Diarrhea and loss weight anemia.
Preventions:
Avoiding fecal contamination of food and
water
Treatment:
Metronidazole (flagyl)
Tinidazole

Giardia Lamblia
Life Cycle:
1. Motile (Trophozoites): Pear shaped with two nuclei four
pairs of flagella and suction disk with which attaches to
intestinal wall.
2. Non Motile (Cyst): Thick walled with four nuclei. Each
cyst give rise to two trophozoites during excitation in the
intestinal tract.
Disease
Giardiasis :
Inflammation of duodenal mucosa leading to
malabsorption of fat and protein.

Symptoms:
Diarrhea accompanied by nausea
anorexia without fever.
Treatment:
Metronidazole (Flagyl)
Quinacrine Hydrochloride
Prevention:
Boiled, filtered or Iodine treated water
No prophylactic drug or vaccine is available.

UROGENITAL PROTOZOA
Trichomonas :
Pear shaped with a center nucleus and
four anterior flagella.
It exist only as a motile (trophozoites).
No Cyst form because its a sexually transmitted disease
Found in Vagina and prostate.
Disease:
Trichomonasis:
T. vaginalis often infects the vagina,
where it may cause severe irritation and foul-smelling
discharge.

Symptoms:
Watery, foul-smelling, greenish, vaginal
discharged accompanied by itching and burning.
Treatment:
Metronidazole (Flagyl).
Preventions:
Sexually Transmitted