Experiment No.
10
Date: 23.07.2015
Aim: Identification of disease causing organisms-Plasmodium, Ascaris, Entamoeba & Ringworm
through permanent slides or specimens. Comment on symptoms of disease that they cause.
Entamoeba histolytica
Disease caused: Amoebiasis or
amoebic dysentery
1.It is a human parasite that resides in
upper part of large intestine.
2. Parasite is unicellular one
pseudopodium, one nucleus and many
food vacuoles.
3. Feeds on RBC by damaging large
intestine and reaching blood
capillaries.
4. Symptoms: Abdominal pain,
repeated motions with blood and
mucus, dysentery.
Plasmodium vivax Ascaris lumbricoides Microsporum andouini
Disease caused: Malaria Disease caused: Ascariasis Disease caused: Ringworm
1.It enters human body 1.It is endoparasite of small 1.The mycelium of fungus
in sporozoite stage by intestine of human beings, occurs in break in the
bite of female common in children. dermis.
Anopheles mosquito. 2. It shows sexual dimorphism as 2. It infects hair and hyphae
2. Sporozoite is spindle female is longer than male. put out to surface and bear
shaped, uninucleate and 3. Males have posterior end spores.
shows wriggling which is curved ventrally and has 3. The spores are very small
movement. two chitinous spicules to help in and are produced in large
copulation. numbers, get detached and
3. Sporozoites attack 4. In females, the genital aperture spread infection.
liver cells and later RBC. is present on mid ventral line at 4. Symptoms: Ring shaped
4. Gametocytes about 1/3 of length from anterior lesions and itching. Scaling
developed in RBC end. or cracking of skin. Nails
produce male and 5. Symptoms are impaired become thickened,
female gametes which digestion, diarrhoea, vomiting discoloured and brittle.
reach stomach of and retarded growth.
mosquito when it sucks
blood of infected human
host.
5. Symptoms: Rapidly
rising body temperature
form 103oF -105o F with
shivering and chills.
Restlessness, loss of
appetite, sleeplessness.
Muscular pains.