The incorrect match between organism and the appropriate diagnostic procedure is:

Match the specimen source with the corresponding parasite that will most likely be recovered from that site.

Indicate the appropriate order of events in the life cycle of Giardia lamblia.  Start with the step that takes place after the human ingests the infective cysts.

A 44-year-old man was admitted to the hospital following a 2-week history of low-grade fever, malaise, and anorexia.  Examination of a Giemsa-stained blood film revealed many intra-erythrocytic parasites.  Further history revealed frequent camping trips near Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Island in the Northeast US, but no travel outside the continental United States.  This parasite could easily be confused with:

Leishmania donovani multiplies intracellularly in what cell?

Which of the following is a non-pathogenic member of the Entamoeba genus that ingests bacteria?

The number of uterine branches in the mature proglottid of Taenia saginata is:

A stained fecal smear reveals mononucleate flagellates with a comma-shaped posterior, and lemon-shaped mononucleate cysts with a clear, nipplelike bleb at one end.  You would report this parasite as:

Evaluate the following life cycle.    Operculated, unembryonated egg (passed in human feces) must reach water to mature First larval stage (coracidium) ingested by a copepod and develops into a procercoid larva Infected copepod ingested by fish, larva leaves fish’s intestine and invades flesh and develops into plerocercoid larva (scolex, thin, ribbon like portion of tissue) Humans ingest plerocercoid larvae by eating raw or undercooked fish Scolex released in intestine, develops into an adult worm   This depicts the life cycle of which organism?

Knowledge of nocturnal periodicity is especially important in the diagnosis of certain infections caused by: