Filarial worms Flashcards by Rd Pingoy

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worm crawling conjunctiva
Calabar swelling

Loa Loa

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Black river blindness

Black fly

Onchocerca volvulus

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Tx for onchorersa

Ivermectin - microfilaria except adult

Suramin

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occurs when microfilariae of Onchocerxa volvulua in cutaneous sites are killed by the administration od diethylcarbamazine

Mazzoti reaction

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Cutaneus larva migrans

Ancylostoma brasiliense

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Visceral larva mitrans

Toxocara canis

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untreated water

Dracunculus medinensis

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creeping reaction

Tx Thiabendazole

Ancylostoma

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fondnesd for raw fish

Present as Gasritis gastric ulcer and CA

Anisamois

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“barber’s pole”

Angiostrongylus cantonensis

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Africab sleeping sickness

Tsetse fly

Trypobema gambiense

Tryponema rhodesiense

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Chagas’ disease
Reduviid bug
“kissing bug”

Trypansosoma cruzi

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Unilateral periorbital edema
Cardimyopathy
megacolon

(+) Romana sign

Chagas, disease

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Karandel sifn

delated sensation to paib

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