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What are helminths?

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multicellular worms

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What are protozoa?

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unicellular parasites

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What is main target of plasmodia?

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red blood cells

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What are symptoms of malaria?

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initially symptoms of flu:
- fever
- shivering
- pain in joints
- headache
- vomiting
rapidly progresses:
--> anemia, hemoglobinuria [black water fever], organ failure [kidney/liver/brain], death
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5
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Where are most of malaria cases?

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more than 90% in Africa

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What are signs of plasmodium falciparum?

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  • most pathogenic
  • see ring forms on peripheral sphere, may see banana gametocytes
  • multiply infected red cells
  • rapidly progresses to heavy paraistemia
  • infected cells same size as non-infected
  • get endorgan damage [esp. cerebral]
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7
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How is plasmodium falciparum transmitted?

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via anopheles mosquito

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What are schizonts?

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bag of parasites ready to rupture open

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Which two malaria species have a hypnozoite stage? what does that mean?

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  • hypnozoite stage = a dormant stage where it hangs around in liver
  • plasmodium ovale and plasmodium vivax
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What additional treatment do you need to give for malaria with hynozoite stage?

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need to give primaquine

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What is life cycle of plasmodium?

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  • mosquito injects gametocytes
  • mosquito injects sporozoites
  • sporozoites go to liver and form tissue schizont = replicating parasite
  • schizont ruptures and gives off sporozoites = when it becomes diagnostic
  • sporozoites infect RBCs, mature and form more erythrocytic schizonts and rupture to continue cycle
  • ## some sporozoites mature into gametocytes and can then be infective
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What is major preventitive measure against malaria

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  • use bed nets
  • use repellent especially at night
    major time of mosquito activity = night
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Where do most malarial agents work?

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in blood phase at level of erythrocytic schizont

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How much time between mosquito bite and symptoms?

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  • about 8 days incubation period when it may not be detectable
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What is a hypnozoite?

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resting stage of malaria wks/months later

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What is rapid malaria test?

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  • strip with test and control bands
  • parasite Ag captured by a labeled Ab then the labeled Ab-Ag complex will be captured by bound Ab of test band
  • labeled Ab captured by bound Ab of control band
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What is the most lethal cause of malaria?

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  • plasmodium falciparum
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What are the four causes of malaria?

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  • plasmodium falciparum
  • plasmodium vivax
  • plasmodium ovale
  • plasmodium malariae
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What drug is plasmodium falciparum resistant to in most parts of the world?

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chloroquine

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What is cause/effect of cerebral malaria?

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  • usually due to falciparum infection
  • 20% mortality
  • cerebral ischemia secondary to sequestration of parasitized RB or cytokines
  • get seizure, altered mental status, hypoglycemia/lactic acidosis
  • normal CSF but high ICP [intracranial pressure
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What cells does falciprum infect vs ovale/vivax?

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falciprum can infect RBCs of any age

ovale/vivax primarily infect young reticulocytes

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What do you normally see in plasmodium faliparum blood smear?

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  • only see early trophocytes [rings] and [banana shaped] gametocytes
  • common to see multiple infections of single red cell
  • infected cells are same size as uninfected
  • small trophozoites = 2 chromatin dots in cell
  • do not usually see schizonts
  • may see parasitized RBC and schizonts in brain capillaries
23
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How do merozoites enter erythrocyte?

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via parasitopherous vacuole

24
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What is PfEMP1 protein?

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  • parasite protein that gets expressed on infected cells
  • forms knobs that allow cell to attach capillary endothelium
  • undergoes antigenic variation so immunity difficult
25
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What are challenges of malaria vaccine?

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spends most of time as intracellular pathogen

26
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What are ring hemorrhages?

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accumulation of parasites in brain capillaries leads to ischemia surrounding capillary in ring shape

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What is hemozoin?

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  • malaria pigment that can be seen deposited in infected organs
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What are characteristics of plasmodium vivax?

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  • can relapse months or yrs later via hypnozoites
  • duffy blood group antigen needed for attachment to RBC
  • only infects reticulocytes [so lower parasitemia]
  • synhronous schizogony so get fever every 48 hrs
29
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Can chloroquine treat plasmodium vivax?

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  • usually but some resistance reported in papua new guinea
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What do you see with plasmodium vivax on blood smear?

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  • infected RBCs are enlarged
  • see all stages in peripheral blood [ring form, ameboid trophozoites, schizonts, gametocytes]
  • multiple infections in RBC common
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What do you see in plasmodium ovale on blood smear

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  • all stages in peripheral blood [ring form, ameboid trophozoites, schizonts, gametocytes]
  • rarely see multiple infections
  • infected RBCs are slightly enlarged and oval shape
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How do you tell difference between ovale and vivax?

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  • ovale = oval shaped infected cells

- ovale you never see multiple infections of same cell

33
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What are signs of plasmodium ovale?

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  • fever every 48 hrs [same as vivax]

- possible relapses

34
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What is primaquine?

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  • tissue schozontocide –> treats liver phase of malaria

- use to treat p vivax or p ovale

35
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When is primaquine contraindicated?

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in G6PD deficiency –> can cause hemolytic anemia

36
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what are evolutionary adaptations related to malaria?

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  • G6PD deficiency –> more oxygen radicals –> survival advantage, might destroy parasite
  • sickle cell –> malaria can’t infect sickle RBCs
  • thalassemia –>
  • duffy antigen
37
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how long can ovale/vivax persist vs malariae?

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ovale/vivax persist for 5 yrs

malariae persist for 20-30 yrs

38
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What are characteristics of plasmodium malariae?

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  • may persist in blood 20-30 yrs after infection
  • no hypnozoite liver stage just delayed onset in humans
  • infects only aging RBCs [lower parasitemia]
  • 72 hr schizogony so longer duration between fevers than vivax/ovale
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What do you see with plasmodium malariae smear?

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  • all stages in peripheral blood
  • multiple infections rare
  • infected erythrocytes not enlarged
  • can see band form
40
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What is p knowelsii?

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  • looks identical to p. malariae, originally a primate pathogen recently reported in humans in SE Asia
41
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How is quinine administered? what can it treat?

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  • good agent against all 4 species

- not available in US as IV –> give quinidine

42
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What is possible side effect of quinidine?

A

cardiotoxicity

43
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What are breeding sites for malaria vector?

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  • rice field
  • marsh/swamp
  • open water storage tank
  • urban area construction site with open water storage
44
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What are the antimalarial drugs?

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  • quinine/quinidine
  • chloroquine
  • mefloquine
  • primaquine
  • atovaquone/proguanil
  • doxycycline
  • sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine
  • artemesinin derivatives
45
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what are preventitive malarial meds?

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  • malarone
  • doxycycline
  • mefloquine
46
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What do you use to treat severe malaria?

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IV quinidine in combo with doxy or clindomycin

47
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What is babesia microti

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  • intra-erythrocytic parasite very difficult to distinguish from plasmodium
48
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How is babesia microti transmitted? vector? reservoir?

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  • by ixodes scapularis tick [same as lyme disease]

- reservoir = white footed mice and other small rodents

49
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What do you use to treat babesia microti?

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  • first choice: atovaquone + azithromycin

- 2nd choice: clindamycin + quinine

50
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Where are most cases of babesia in US?

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  • nantucket, marthas vineyard, cape cod, block island, eastern long island, shelter island, fire island
51
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What are clinical signs of babesiosis?

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can be asymptomatic: incubation for wks to months
mild: viral like disease after 1-6 wks, malaise/fever/fatigue/anemia, less common: ab pain/ nausea/ vomitting/sore throat/depression

severe: in pts who are asplenic or immunosuppressed –> acute resp failure, DIC, CHF, liver/renal failure

52
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how is babesia transmitted?

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tick, blood transfusion

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