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A barrel-shaped egg with polar hyaline plugs was discovered in a 3-year old child’s stool specimen.  From this description, you would identify the parasite as:

What organism causes granulomatous amebic encephalitis in patients that are usually immunocompromised or eye infections in people practicing poor contact lens care?

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.

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

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

This organism is a common causative agent of water-borne parasite outbreaks in the US because it is resistant to chlorine and has been found in municipal water supplies.

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

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?

Which of the following pairs of helminths cannot be reliably differentiated by the appearance of their eggs?

Which of the following social media posts did Thomas Broadus mention when discussing recent “successes” by the Mississippi State Marketing team?