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Genus and Species Disease produce Infective stage Definitive host Portal of entry Manner of transmission Habitat Pathogenic stage Locomotive apparatus Motility Nuclear karyosome Mode of reproduction Pathogenesis Type of encysment Laboratory diagnosis
Entamoeba histolytica Amoebiasis Amoebic dysentery Extraintestinal amoebiasis Cyst Man Mouth Ingestion of mature cyst through contaminated food or drinks Cecum Trophozoite Pseudopodia (Finger-like) Active, Progressive, Directional Centrally (Bulls eye) Binary fission Lytic necrosis Protective and Reproductive Demonstration of organism in stool Metronidazole Ingested RBC Bulls eye karyosome Cigar-shaped 4 nuclei 2 Bulls eye karyosome
Rhizopodea Entamoeba coli Endolimax nana Non-pathogenic/Commensal Non-pathogenic/Commensal Cyst Man Mouth Ingestion of mature cyst through contaminated food or drinks Cecum None Pseudopodia (short and blunt) Sluggish, non-progressive, non-directional Eccentric Binary fission Non-pathogenic Protective and Reproductive Demonstration of organism in stool Metronidazole Cyst Man Mouth Ingestion of mature cyst through contaminated food or drinks Cecum None Pseudopodia (short and blunt) Sluggish Central/Eccentric, blot-like Binary fission Non-pathogenic Protective and Reproductive Demonstration of organism in stool Metronidazole
Iodamoeba butschlii Non-pathogenic/ Commensal Cyst Man Mouth Ingestion of mature cyst through contaminated food or drinks Cecum None Pseudopodia (short and blunt) Sluggish Centrally Binary fission Non-pathogenic Protective and Reproductive Demonstration of organism in stool Metronidazole Glycogen vacuole occupying 1/3 of the cytoplasm
Entamoeba hartmanni Non-pathogenic/ Commensal Cyst Man Mouth Ingestion of mature cyst through contaminated food or drinks Cecum None Pseudopodia Sluggish Centrally Binary fission Non-pathogenic Protective and Reproductive Demonstration of organism in stool Metronidazole
15 Treatment Trophozoite Stage 1 Pathognomonic/ Diagnostic Cystic Stage 1 Chromosomal body 2 Total no. of nucleus 3 No. of nuclear division 4 Pathognomonic/ Diagnostic
Comma-shaped or bacilliform 4 nuclei 2 Ground glass appearance Cross eyed or Punched out karyosome
Clear chromatin 1 nucleus (usually) Glycogen vacuole occupying 2/3 of cytoplasm, deep mahogany brown color, perikaryosomal