While Out Hiking You Drink Water from a Stream,and Several

question 22

Multiple Choice

While out hiking you drink water from a stream,and several days later you feel sick with diarrhea and intestinal bloating.Your doctor collects a stool sample and finds unicellular organisms that lack mitochondria and have multiple flagella.You are most likely infected with

• A) the diplomonad Giardia.
• B) slime molds.
• C) kinetoplastid trypanosomes.
• D) the ciliate Paramecium.
• E) testate amoebozoans.

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