PROTOZOANS

Pathogenic ameba
Name: Entamoeba histolytica
Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Precyst
C. Cyst

C-1. Uninucleated cyst

C-2. Binucleated cyst
C-3. Quadrinucleated
cyst

Commensal ameba
(A) Name: Entamoeba coli
Stages:
A. Trophozoite
B. Precyst
C. Cyst

C-1. Quadrinucleated
(B) cyst
C-2. Binucleated cyst
C-3. Uninucleated cyst
C-4 . Octanucleated
Mature cyst

(C)

C-1 C-2 C-3

C-4
 Name: Entamoeba hartmanni
Stage:
A. Trophozoite

.
Name: Entamoeba polecki
Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Cyst

Name: Endolimax nana

Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Cyst

Name: Iodamoeba butschlii

Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Cyst

Name: Entamoeba gingivalis

Stage: Trophozoite

Free-living ameba
Name: Naegleria fowleri
Stage:
A. Amoeboid
B. Flagellated form
C. Cyst stage

Name: Balamuthia
 mandrillaris
Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Cyst

Acanthamoeba species

Name :Acanthamoeba
castellani(most common)
Stage : Cyst

Intestinal flagellates
Name: Giardia lamblia
Stage:
A. Trophozoite(Front)
B. Trophozoite(lateral)
C. Cyst

Name: Dientamoeba fragilis

Stage: Trophozoite

Name: Chilomastix mesnili

Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Cyst
 Name: Enteromonas hominis
Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Cyst

Name: Retortamonas
intestinalis
Stage: Trophozoite

Urogenital flagellates
Name: Trichomonas
vaginalis
Stage: Trophozoite

Name: Trichomonas tenax

Stage: Trophozoite
 Ciliates
Name: Balantidium coli
Stage:
A. Trophozoite
B. Cyst

Malarial parasites
(A) (B) Name: Plasmodium ovale
Stage:
A. Ring form (early
trophozoite)
B. Developing trophozoite
(C) (D)
C. Immature schizont
D. Mature schizont
E. Microgametocyte
F. Macrogametocyte

(E) (F)

Name: Plasmodium
(A) (B) falciparum
Stage:
A. Ring form (early
trophozoite)
B. Developing trophozoite
C. Immature schizont
(C) (D)
D. Mature schizont
E. Microgametocyte
F. Macrogametocyte

(E) (F)
 Name: Plasmodium vivax
Stage:
A. Ring form (early
trophozoite)
B. Developing trophozoite
(A) (B)
C. Immature schizont
D. Mature schizont
E. Microgametocyte
F. Macrogametocyte

(C) (D)

(E) (F)
Name: Plasmodium malariae
Stage:
A. Erythrocyte
B. Young ring
C. Older ring with
Schuffner’s dot
D. Adult ring (enlarged
cell) with Schuffner’s
dot
E. Chromatin division
F. Further chromatin
division
G. Schizont
H. Mature shizont
I. Female gametocyte
J. Mature female
gametocyte
K. Male gametocyte

Blastocystis hominis
Name: Blastocystis hominis
Stage:
A. Vacuolar form(Left)
and granular form
(right)
B. Vacuolar form
 PHYLUM ASCHELMINTHES: CLASS NEMATODA

Name: Ascaris lumbricoides

Stage:
A. Egg
A-1. Fertilized(surface)
A-2.fertilized (median)
A-3. decorticated fertilized
A-1 A-2 A-3 A-4 A-4. unfertilized egg
B. Adult worm
B-1. Male
B-2. Female

B-1

B-2

Name: Trichuris trichiura

Stage:
A. Egg
B. Adult worm
B-1. Male
B-2. Female

(a)

(B-1)

(B-2)
 Name: Enterobius vermicularis
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Adult worm
B-1. Female
B-2. Male

(A)

(B-1) (B-2)
Hookworms
Name: Ancylostoma Name: Necator
duodenale americanus
Stage: Stage:
A. Egg D. Egg
A-1. Fertilized E. Larva
egg(schematic) E-1.
A-1 A-2 A-2. Immature Rhabditiform
fertilized egg E-2. Filariform
A-3. F. Adult worm
Unembryonated
F-1. Male
egg
A-4. Mature
embryonated egg
A-3 A-4 B. Larva
B-1. Filariform
B-2. Rhabditiform

C. Adult worm
C-1. female
B-1

B-2
 C-1

E-1 E-2

F-1
Name: Strongyloides stercoralis
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Larva
B-1. Rhabditiform
B-2. Filariform
A
C. Adult worm
C-1. Female
C-2. Male

B-1 B-2
 C-1 C-2
Name: Capillaria philippinensis
Stage: Egg

Name: Parastrongylus cantonensis

Stage: Adult worm

Name: Trichinella spiralis

Stage:
A. Larva
A-1 Encysted larva in muscles
B. Adult worm
B-1 Female
B-2. Male
A A-1

B-1 B-2
 Name: Dracunculus medinensis
Stage:
A. Larva
B. Adult worm

B
 Filarial worms
Name: Wuchereria Name: Onchocera
bancrofti volvus
Stage: Stage:
A. Microfilaria E. Microfilaria
B. Adult worm
B-1. Male
B-2 Female
Name: Brugia malayi Name: MAsonela
A B-1 B-2 Stage: (Dipetalonema)
C. Microfilaria perstans
Stage:
F. Microfilaria
Name: Loa Loa Name:Mansonela
Stage: ozzardi
D. Microfilaria Stage:
G. Microfilaria
C

G
PHYLUM PLATYHELMINTHES: CLASS TREMATODA
Schistosoma spp.
Name: S. Name: S.
japonicum mansoni
Stage: Stage:
A. Egg B. Egg
Name: S. haematobium
A B Stage:
C. Egg

C
Name: Paragonimus westermani
Stage: Adult worm

Name: Fasciolopsis buski

Stage: Adult worm

Name: Echinostoma ilocanum

Stage:
A-C. Adult worm
D. head collar
E-F. eggs
 Name: Fasciola hepatica
Stage: Adult

Name: Opisthorchis viverrini

Stage:
A. Adult
B. Egg
C. Cercaria

Name: Clonorchis sinensis

Stage:
A. Egg
B. Adult

B.
 PHYLUM PLATYHELMINTHES: CLASS CESTODA
Name: Diphyllobothrium
latum
Stage:
A. Egg (operculated)
B. Adult worm
B-1. Scolex
B-2. Strobilia
A
B-3. mature
Proglottid

B-1 B-2

B-3
Name: Taenia saginata
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Cysticercus Bovis
C. Adult worm
C-1. Scolex
C-2. mature
A proglottid

C-1 C-2
 Name: Taenia solium
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Cysticercus
Cellulosae
C. Adult worm
C-1. Scolex
A
C-2. mature
proglottid

C-1 C-2

Name: Dipylidium
caninum
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Cysticercoid larva

A.

C.
 Name: Echinococcus
granulosus
Stage:
A. Adult worm
B. Hyatid Cyst

B.

Hymenolepis spp.
Name: Hymenolepis
diminuta.
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Adult
B-1. Scolex
A. B-2. Proglottid

B-1 B-2
 Name: Hymenolepis nana
Stage:
A. Egg
B. Adult

References:

 Gosh, S. (2013), Paniker’s textbook of Parasitology

 Satsky, A S & K, Sandhya Bhat (2014), Essentials of Medical Parasitology
 Zeibeg ( 2013), Clinical Parasitology : A practical approach 2nd edition
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Min, Duk & Hoang, Eui-Hyug & Phommasack, Bounlay & Insisiengmay, Bounnaloth &
Rim, Han-Jong. (2018). Echinostoma ilocanum Infection in Two Residents of
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