hemo Flashcards
T cruzi Disease
Chagas
Tcruzi group
Stercoraria
T crusi mulitply host manner
discountinous
Tcrzui most heavily infrcted cells
Myocytes and reticuloendothelial system
T cruzi vectors
Reduviid Tratoma, Panstrongylus, Rhodnius
T cruzi stages of deevlopment
Amastigote, Promasitote, epimastigote, trypomastigote
Tcruzi stage in bloodstream
Trypomastigote
T crusi stage in tissue cells
Amastigot
T cruzi stage in vevtor midgut
aastigote, epimastogote, promastigote
Tcruzi stage in hindgut
metacyclic trypomastigotes
what parasite and stage oosterior pointed, 2/3 undulations, threadlike flagellum, C U S shaped
Trypomastigotes
T cruzi trypomastigote charactersitic of species
kinetoplast
Tcruzi location where thye multiplu
Macrophages
Tcruzi method of multipliation
hbinary fission as amastigotes
Tcruzi transmission
bite broken skin mucous mebrane
Tcruzi disease stages
acute and chronic
T cruzi acute phase
inflammation of myocardium, fever malaise, lymphadenopathy, Chagomas, Romanas sign
Chagomas
furuncle lile lesion, central edema lympahdenopathy
Romanas sign
Conjunctivities, bipalpebral edema
T cruzi chronic stage
friboic resctions injure myocsrdium, cardiac conduction system p, enteric nervous system
T cruzi chronic stage most affected organ
aheart
T cruzi chronic stage symptoms
cardiomegaly, arrhytmnia, paliptations, GIT form=achalasia due to emegaesphagus, cosntipation due to megacolon 1/3rd affected
T cruzi disease diagnosis
compelte patient hsitory
T cruzi disease definitive diagnosis
visualize parssites in blood smears using giemsa stain, only in 1st 2 months
T cruzi diagnosiis in chronic stage
elisa, hemaglutination , pcr
t cruzi disease cardiac diagnosis
ECG atrial fibrillation, low QRS voltage, cardiomayipathy
T cruzi. disease GIT diagnosis
barium esophagogram, barium enema
Tcruzi treatment and sideeffects
nifurtimox ( weight loss anorexia behavioral changes) and benznidazole (rashes, bone marrow suppression, neuropathy)
nifurtimox moa
oxidative radicals, dna synthesis
T cruzi disease epidemiology
chagas disease, 10 mil worldwide, latin americas, inwho list pf. eglected diseases
Tbrucei gambiense and rhodesiense disease
HAT african sleeping sickness
T brucei family
Salivaria