TIME : 30 MINUTES

POST TEST PARASITOLOGY d. Trichomonas vaginalis

e. Trypanosoma brucei
I. Correct Answer : 2 point
Wrong Answer : -1 point 7. What is the most common flagellate isolated in
No Answer : 0 point clinical specimens?
a. Trypanozoma cruzi
Total Point : 50
b. Leishmania donovani
c. Giardia lamblia
d. Trichomonas vaginalis
e. Trypanosoma brucei
1. Several Papua New Guinea villagers known to eat
pork during celebrations were reported to be
8. What form of Giardia lamblia plays a greater role
suffering from an outbreak of epileptiform seizures.
in transmission?
One of the first things you should investigate is
a. Nuclei
(A) The prevalence of Ascaris infections in the
b. Trophozoites
population
c. Metacysts
(B) The prevalence of schistosomiasis in the
d. Karyosomes
population
e. Cysts
(C) The presence of Trypanosoma brucei
gambiense in the villagers
9. How are both Trypanosoma and Leishmania
(D) The presence of Giardia cysts in the drinking
spread?
water
a. Blood sucking vectors
(E) The presence of Taenia solium in the pigs
b. Mother to fetus
c. STD
2. What is the main drug of filariasis bancrofti?
d. Fecal-oral
a. DEC
e. Person to person
b. Albendazole
c. Ivermectin
10. In what developmental stage of the homoflagellates
d. Metronidazole
does the organism possess a free anterior flagellum
e. Praziquantel
and an undulating membrane?
a. Cysts
3. Cystic Hydatid disease is caused by...
b. Epimastigote
a. E. granulosus
c. Trypomastigote
b. T. spiralis
d. Amastigote
c. T. solium
e. Promastigote
d. W.bancrofti
e. L. species
11. How are trypanosomes able to evade the host
immune system?
4. What is the reservoir for Balantidium coli?
a. They have an anti-phagocytic capsule
a. Human GI Tracts
b. They are obligate intracellular parasites
b. Soil
c. They continuously alter their surface
c. Rodents
antigens
d. Large Intestine of pigs
d. They produce enzymes that digest
e. Mosquitoes
antibodies
e. They cause lysis of T cell
5. A previously healthy 23-year-old woman recently
returned from her vacation after visiting friends in 12. What organ is targeted during an infection with
Arizona. She complained of severe headaches, saw Trypanosoma cruzi?
flashing lights, and had a purulent nasal a. Heart
discharge. She was admitted into the hospital with a b. Brain
diagnosis of bacterial meningitis and died 5 days c. Nervous system
later. Which of the following parasites should have d. Liver
been considered in the diagnosis? She had no prior e. Spleen
history of travel outside of the United States.
(A) Plasmodium falciparum 13. What serves as an important reservoir of
(B) Toxoplasma gondii Leishmania?
(C) Strongyloides stercoralis a. Human
(D) Entamoeba histolytica b. Soil
(E) Naegleria fowleri c. Rodent
d. Musquitoe
6. Which mastigophoran species causes a sexually e. Dog
transmitted disease?
a. Trypanozoma cruzi 14. The sequence of fever stage from malaria disease
b. Leishmania donovani is...
c. Giardia lamblia
 a. rigoris-akme d. Diphylobothrium latum
b. sudoris-rigoris-akme e. Fasciolopsis buski
c. rigoris-sudoris-akme
d. akme-rigoris-sudoris
22. Pig worm is another name for?
e. rigoris-akme-sudoris
a. Trichinella spiralis
b. Taenia saginata
15. The main drug of severe malaria is... c. Taenia solium
a. ACT d. Clonorchis sinensis
b. Intravena artesunate e. Metagonimus yokogawai
c. Parenteral Quinine
d. Oral Chloroquine
23. Your patient is a 30-year-old man with persistent
e. Intravena primaquine
watery diarrhea for 2 weeks. He is HIV antibody
positive with a CD4 count of 10. Routine stool
16. Transmission of cyclosporiasis occurs by what
culture revealed no bacterial pathogen. Ova and
method?
parasite analysis revealed cysts that stained red in
a. Blood sucking vectors
an acid-fast stain. Of the following, which one is
b. Mother to fetus
the most likely cause of this infection?
c. STD
a. C. Hominis
d. Fecal-oral
b. E. Histolytica
e. Person to person
c. G. Lamblia
d. T. Vaginalis
17. How do humans acquire trichinosis?
e. D. Fragilis
a. By walking barefoot through areas where
cats or dogs have defecated
24. Your patient is a 15-year-old girl with a 2-week
b. By self-inoculation
history of headache and vomiting and a 3-day
c. By frequent contact with a dog's fur, paws,
history of confusion and incoherent speech. She
and tongue
was born in Ecuador but moved to this country 5
d. By eating the uncooked meat of an
years ago. MRI of the brain reveals multiple lesions
infected animal
bilaterally. The following day, she has a seizure
e. By a bite from a vector
and dies. On autopsy, the brain lesions consist of a
cyst-like sac containing a larva. Of the following,
which one is the most likely cause?
18. The vector of Eastern equine encephalitis virus
(A) D. latum
comes from which genus?
(B) E. granulosus
a. Anopheles
(C) T. saginata
b. Aedes
(D) T. Solium
c. Culex
(E) Visceral Larva Migrans
d. Mansonia
e. Culicidae
25. The larvae of certain nematodes migrate through
the lung and cause pneumonitis characterized by
19. Which of the following parasite that its egg has
cough or wheezing. Infection by which one of the
been embryonated when it touch water
following nematodes is most likely to cause this
a. Paragonimus westermani
clinical picture?
b. Echinostoma malayanum (A) A. simplex
c. Heterophyes heterophyes (B) A. lumbricoides
d. Metagonimus yokogawai (C) E. vermicularis
e. All above correct (D) T. spiralis
(E) T. trichiura

20. Which of this following parasite that has

trophozoite with two nucleus and live in the large
intestine
a. Giardia lamblia
b. Balantidium coli
c. Dientamoeba fragilis
d. A and B
e. B and C

21. B12 vitamin deficiency is a manifestation of what

infection?
a. Hymenolepis nana
b. Hymenolepis diminuta
c. Diphyllidium caninum
 II. Correct Answer : 1 point 14. Capillaria philippinensis
Wrong Answer : 0 point What is the Infective Stage of this parasite
No Answer : 0 point 15. Brugia malayi
Total Point : 20 point 16. Opisthorchis felineus
17. Hymenolepis diminuta
What is the Intermediate Host (both 1st and 2nd) for these What is the vector that bring this parasite / bacteria?
parasite? 18. Orientia tsutsugamushi
1. Plasmodium falciparum 19. Borellia recurrentis
2. Heterophyes heterophyes 20. Trypanosoma cruzi
3. Paragonimus westermani
4. Fasciola hepatica
5. Anisakis simplex
What is the Drug of Choice for infection of these parasite?
6. Leishmania tropicalis
7. Strongyloides stercolaris
8. Giardia lamblia
9. Trypanosoma gambiense
10. Pneumocystis jiroveci
11. Toxoplasma gondii
What is the Diagnostic Stage of this parasite
12. Cryptosporodium parvum
13. Strongyloides stercolaris