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Organisms that under normal conditions cannot be transmitted in the laboratory/hospital setting are:

A stool specimen is examined, a tapeworm proglottid is found and injected with India ink, and the following characteristics are observed:  •  15 to 18 uterine branches on each sideThe intermediate hosts of this tapeworm are:

Ingestion of which of the following eggs will result in infection?

Describe the life cycle of Schistosoma species. Please include:  intermediate and definitive hosts and what stage is infective for each host where each of the 3 main species reside in the definitive host when they are adults what the diagnostic stage is and the preferred specimen for recovery for each of the 3 main schistosomal species

Match the trematode with their infective stage:

The dog or double-pored tapeworm, Dipylidium caninum, consisting of many small proglottids, measures 10 to 70 cm in length as an adult. The scolex contains four suckers and an armed rostellum. The intermediate host in which infective cysticercoids develop is the:

Read the prompts. Choose one prompt. Use the information from the course to construct an essay in the style you chose. 

Identify any spectator ions (hint: think precipitation reaction):  

Select all of the combinations that would result in the formation of a precipitate:   

Balance the following chemical reaction by adding the coefficients (if the coefficient is “1”, input 1): Ex:  2H2 + 1O2 –> 2H2O [1]C2H6 + [2]O2 –> [3]CO2 + [4]H2O