AOB Flashcards
MSF crisis Response
● Rapid initial assessment
● Measles and other vaccines
● Water and sanitation
● Food and nutrition programs
● Shelters and site planning
● Curative activities
● Control of communicable diseases and epidemics
● Surveillance
● Human resources and training
● Coordination
Katayama fever
4-6 weeks post Shisto infection
Rash
Fever
Cough
lymphadenopathy
GI upset
Snail stages Schisto
Multiple sporocysts in snail (successive generations)
Epidemiology for strongy
Tropics/sub tropics
People who work in rural/agriculture
Give 4 discrete manifestations of Strongy
- GI - bloating, pain, nausea
- Skin - larva currens
- Resp - loeflers
- Hyperinfection
Epi/incidence malaria
250 million cases/year
650, 000 deaths
95% cases and deaths Africa
>80 percent of these in <5
Mosquito stages malaria
Gametes taken up
Micro inserts macro (in stomach)
Ookinete
Oocyst
Ruptured Oocyst - sporozoites
Where is Vivax and why?
SEA
Americas
Africa largely spared - Duffy negative
Do you get lymphadenopathy in Malara?
Rare
Fundoscopy in severe malaria
Looking for haemorrhages - white centred retinal haemorrhages
What is the organism which causes Scrub?
Orentia Tsutsugamushi
What is the vector for Scrub?
Chigger larvae (Leptoromoidum mite)
Incubation period rickettsia infections?
5-14 days
Diagnostic testing Scrub?
Pathogen detection - PCR
Antibody detection - Indirect immunofluorescent assay (gold standard)
Term used for Acari keeping a pathogen through multiple stages of life
Transtadial passage