Leishmania Flashcards
Flagellates parasitic to the blood & tissue are — ??
Hemoflagellates
500
Hemoflaggellates example ??
- Trypanosoma
- Leishmania
500
Visceral leishmaniasis / Kala azar example ??
- Indian kalaazar - L donovani
- South A KAz - L chagasi
- Infantile/Chinese/Mediterranean - L D infantum
500
Mucocutaneous L / Espundia >??
L braziliensis
500
Cutaneous leishmaniasis ??
- PKDL - L donovani
- Old world cutaneous L - L tropica
- New world C L - L mexicana
500
Reservoir of infection of kala azar ??
Man
Parasite life stage in sand fly ??
Pro-mastigote / infective form
501
Parasite life stage in human ??
Amastigote form
speciemen collection site ??
- Splenic pulpn tissue - splenic puncture
- Blood - B film & culture
- Lymph node aspirates / biopsy
- Bone marrow - sterna / iliac crest puncture
Dx of kala azar ??
Detecting Leishman-Donovan bodies/ Amastigotes on mononucler phagocytes
in L stained smaer
503
Specimen for kala azar lab diagnosis ??
- Splenic pulp tissue
- Bone marrow
- Lymph node
- Blood
503
Most sensitive method for diagnosis ??
LD bodies in splenic smears
503
Blood culture media for kala azar ??
NNN
Novy - Mac neal - Nicole
504
Findings in blood culture media ??
Promastigote form of parasites
504
How DNA of the parasite is detected ??
PCR
504
Blood count in kalaazar >??
- Pancytopenia
- Granulocytopenia
- Monocytosis