Multiple Choice
Poor handwashing by farmers may result in which of the following forms of disease transmission?
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1. Introduction to Microbiology
Introduction to Microbiology
Multiple Choice
Which parasite is most commonly identified in peripheral blood smears of patients with malaria?
A
Plasmodium falciparum
B
Entamoeba histolytica
C
Trypanosoma brucei
D
Giardia lamblia
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Understand that malaria is caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium, which infect red blood cells and can be detected in peripheral blood smears.
Recognize that among the Plasmodium species, Plasmodium falciparum is the most common and clinically significant species identified in blood smears of malaria patients.
Recall that Entamoeba histolytica is an intestinal parasite causing amoebiasis and is not found in blood smears but rather in stool samples.
Know that Trypanosoma brucei is a protozoan parasite causing African sleeping sickness and is found in blood but is not related to malaria.
Identify Giardia lamblia as a parasite causing intestinal infections, detected in stool samples, and not present in peripheral blood smears.
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