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Saccharomycese cervisiae
Brewer's Yeast; Baker's Yeast; Most Common Fermentation Type; Crohn's Disease, ulcerative colitis
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Candida albicans
thrush, opportunistic oral and genital infections; nosocomial or immunocompromised - it is natural glora
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Apergillus niger
black mold (not of bread); aspergiliosis, otomycosis (fungal ear infection); inhale spores; in soil and on fruits and vegetables
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Rhizopus stolonifera
black bread mold; zygomycosis; inhale spores; cosmopolitan areas
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Penicillium sp.
source of several antibiotics; inhale spores; widely distributed
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Entamoeba histolytica
dysentery; cysts are transmitted through feces or other moist soils
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Balantidium coli
balantidiasis; zoonotic - pig feces; widespread; cyst has two nuclei, trophozoite has cilia
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Giardia lamblia
giardiasis; ingest cyst from contaminated water; cyst=smiley face, trophozoite=smiley face
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Trichomonas vaginalis
trichomoniasis; STD; no cyst stage; looks like leaf with strange hair
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Trypanosoma brucei
trypanosomiasis (african sleeping sickness); tsetse fly is vector; looks like worm or leaf folded along its stem
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Plasmodium falciparym
malaria; RBCs
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Toxoplasma gondii
cat box thing; looks like tiny maggots
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Clonorchis sinensis
oriental liver fluke; live in liver, mainly bile ducts; eggs get eaten by snails, then penetrates fish, then ingested by humans; flat worm with guts; cyst has small knob at one end
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Paragonium westermani
lung fluke; Asia and Couth America
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Schistosoma mansoni
schistosomiasis; egg has lateral spine; worm looks like an eel kind of
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Dipylidium caninum
cucumber tapeworm; caught from ingesting infected fleas
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Echinococcus granulosus
hyper tapeworm or hydatid worm; affects dogs with humans or others as intermediaries
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Hymenolepsis nana
dwarf tapeworm; very common in humans; egg looks perfect; eggs are ingested through feces-contaminated food
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Taenia saginata
beef tapeworm
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Taenia solium
pork tapeworm
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Enterobius vermicularis
pinworm
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Ancyclostoma duodenale
old world hookworm
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Necator americanus
New World hook worm; most common hookworm in humans
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Strongyloides stercoralis
threadworm
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Wuchereria bancrofti
elephantiasis; mosquito vector
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