20 Malaria and other Parasites Flashcards
1
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Malaria
- How is Malaria transmitted?
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2
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Malaria
- What are the 2 more common species?
- Which is more pathogenic?
- Which species is zoonotic?
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3
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Malaria
- Compare P. falciparum infection to other malaria parasites.
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4
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Malaria
- What species is shown?
- How do you know?
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5
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Malaria
- What does this describe?
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6
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Malaria
- What does this show?
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7
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Malaria and High Rates of Fatality
- How does Cerebral Malaria present?
- How does Algid Malaria present?
- What is blackwater fever?
- What is a GIANT red flag when considering Malaria?
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8
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Malaria
- What event is related to when patients get the chills?
- What about a fever?
- What about excessive sweating?
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9
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Malaria Dx
- What stain is used for blood smears?
- What other diagnostic tests are used?
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10
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Malaria
- What are the 3 reasons why Malaria is hard to control?
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11
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Malaria
- What are the malaria vaccines?
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12
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What is this?
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Babesiosis
13
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Babesiosis
- What organism causes this?
- What organism is used as a vector?
- How does this present?
- Who gets it?
- What is it often mistaken for?
- What tests are diagnostic
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14
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What is shown?
How does this organism change it’s “appearance”?
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15
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Trypanosomes
- What organisms are assocaited with the African type?
- American?
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16
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What is this?
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African Sleeping Sickness
17
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African Sleeping Sickness
- How do patients present?
- What 3 things are used to DX?
- How do you control the spread of this disease?
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18
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African Sleeping Sickness
- Which of these is associated with East Africa?
- West?
- Which one has faster CNS penetration?
- Which one kills slower?
- Which one is given to animals by animals?
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19
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Chagas Disease
- What organism causes this disease?
- What animal does it live it?
- What does it have this name?
- How do patients present?
- What notable sign do they have?
- What are the colonies called?
- How do you
- Treat this?
- Dx this?
- Control this?
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20
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Chagas Disease
- What are the two blood forms of this?
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21
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What is this?
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Leishmania
22
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Leishmania
- What form of Leishmania is this?
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23
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Leishmania
- What form of Leishmania is this?
- What causes it?
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24
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Leishmania
- What form of Leishmania is associated with skin color alteration, especially in Hindis?
- What are the non-dermal symptoms?
- What do patients have, even if they recover?
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25
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Leishmania
- How do you Dx this?
- Control it?
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26
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What is this?
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Schistosoma
27
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Schistosoma
- What does each of these infect?
- S. mansoni
- S. japonicum
- S. haematobium
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SMALL Japanese man lived in a LARGE mansion
28
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Schistosoma
- Label each
- S. mansoni
- S. japonicum
- S. haematobium
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Schistosoma
- Label each
- S. mansoni
- A
- S. japonicum
- B
- S. haematobium
- C
- S. mansoni
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Schistosoma
- How do organisms cause pathology?
- How do patients present?
- What kind of fever?
- How do you Dx this?
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