Introduction to Parasitology and Medical Laboratory Technology

Everything in the lab must be sterile, specimen should be collected in a sterile clean container, specimen should be labeled immediately, and examination should not be delayed.

It should be collected in a clean sterile cup.

It should be collected in a clean sterile screw cupped tube.

<p>Capillary blood should be taken by lancet, and venous blood should be taken by syringe and then collected in a clean sterile test tube.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Thick blood film and thin blood film; both are used for the diagnosis of Malaria, Trypanosoma, and Lishmania.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>General Stool Examination (G.S.E) and General Urine Examination (G.U.E).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The science which deals with the organisms that live temporarily or permanently on / or in the body of other organisms (hosts) and obtain their food and relationship with these hosts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The science which deals with the parasites causing human infections and diseases they produce.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Organisms that infect other living beings, living on or in the body of the host and obtaining shelter and nourishment from the host.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1- Specimen from sterile sites (e.g. Blood, C.S.F….etc). 2- Non sterile specimen; may contain a normal flora (e.g. stool, tonsil swab, wound swab….etc).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1-Urine (Renal disease ) 2-Stool (GIT disease ) 3- Blood (Malaria and some other diseases) 4-CSF (CNS disease) 5-Swabs in the case of throat, nasal, ear, genital, esophageal, burn and wound infections.</p> Signup and view all the answers