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Organism that causes African sleeping sickness

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Trypanosoma brucei

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Vector for Trypanosoma brucei

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Tsetse fly

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Early stage of sleeping sickness

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Organisms in blood and peripheral lymph nodes

Fever, myalgia, chills, lymphadenopathy

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Late stage of sleeping sickness

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Invasion of CNS

Headaches, seizures, tremors, encephalitis, coma, death

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Diagnose sleeping sickness

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Detection of parasites in blood smears, lymph node aspirates, or CSF

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Trypanosoma brucei immune evasion

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Ag variation

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Organism that causes Chagas’ disease

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Trypanosoma cruzi

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Vector for Trypanosoma cruzi

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Reduvid bug

Transmitted by fecal material

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First sign of Chagas’ disease

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Romana’s sign - development of chagoma

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Acute phase of Chagas’ disease

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Fever, malaise, myalgia, hepatosplenomegaly

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Indeterminate (asymptomatic) phase of Chagas’ disease

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Few parasites in blood, but high level of Ab

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Chronic stage of Chagas’ disease

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Infection of cardiac muscle/myenteric plexus

Cardiac and GI involvement

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Diagnose Chagas’ disease

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Parasites in peripheral blood (acute)

Serology (chronic)

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Organisms that cause visceral Leishmaniasis

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L. donovani
L. infantum

L. chagasi

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Vector for Leishmaniasis

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Female sand flies

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Visceral Leishmaniasis disseminates in which system?

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Reticuloendothelial (liver, spleen, bone marrow, etc.)

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Initial presentation of Leishmaniasis

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Low grade, irregular fever

Most infections are asymptomatic and resolve

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Symptoms of full-blown Leishmaniasis

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Fever, weight loss, hepatosplenomegaly

Systemic immunosuppression, opportunistic infections

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What does resolution of Leishmaniasis depend on, and why?

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CMI via gamma-IFN activation of macrophages, because only intracellular forms of the pathogen (amastigotes) are found in infected individuals

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Organisms causing malaria

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Plasmodium spp.

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What four spp. of Plasmodium cause malaria in humans?

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P. falciparum
P. vivax

P. malariae

P. ovale

First two are most common

22
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Vector for malaria transmission

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Characteristic clinical feature of malaria

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Malarial paroxysm - release of merozoites and hemolysis

Flu-like symptoms

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Duration and pattern of paroxysm based on organism (malaria)

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P. vivax, ovale, and falciparum - 48 hours

P. malariae - 72 hours

25
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Three stages of malaria

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Cold stage (15-60 mins)
Hot stage (2-6 hours)

Sweat stage (8-12 hours)

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Most common complication of malaria

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Anemia

RBC lysis, suppression of erythropoiesis, destruction of RBCs by spleen

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Targets of each malaria organism

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P. falciparum - both young and mature RBCs
P. vivax - young RBCs, must bear Duffy Ag

P. ovale - young RBCs, Duffy positive or negative

P. malariae - older RBCs

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Which malaria organism causes the most severe anemia?

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P. falciparum

29
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Which malaria organisms can remain dormant in the liver for years?

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P. vivax

P. ovale

30
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Diagnose malaria

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Clinical syndrome
Travel Hx

Blood smear for parasites

31
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Characteristic feature of P. falciparum

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“Purple banana”

32
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Organisms causing babesiosis

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Babesia spp.

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Vector for Babesia spp. transmission

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Characteristic feature of babesia infection

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“Maltese cross”

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Babesiosis symptoms

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Most infections are asymptomatic

Fever, chills, myalgia, hemolytic anemia

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Organisms causing filariasis

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Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi (nematodes)

37
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Vector for filariasis transmission

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Mosquitoes

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Symptoms of filariasis

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Many are asymptomatic
Acute infection begins with fever, chills, and lymphadenitis

Only small percentage develop “elephantiasis”

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Diagnose filariasis

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Observation of microfilariae in blood smears

40
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Treatment for filariasis

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DEC kills microfilariae and damages adults

Steroids counteract allergic response to dying worms

41
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Organisms causing schistosomiasis

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Schistosoma spp.

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Different species that cause schistosomiasis and where they infect

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S. mansoni - venous plexus of L.I.
S. japonicum - venous plexus of S.I.

S. haematobium - venous plexus of bladder

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Diagose schistosomiasis

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Eggs in feces or urine

44
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Intracellular stage for sleeping sickness

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Intracellular stage for Chagas’ disease

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Skeletal and cardiac muscle cells

46
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Intracellular stage for Leishmaniasis

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Macrophages

47
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Intracellular stage for malaria

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RBCs, hepatocytes

48
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Intracellular stage for babesiosis

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