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PLE 2019 By Diane Malinao > Micro: Diseases And Treatment > Flashcards

Micro: Diseases And Treatment Flashcards

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Amebic Liver Disease

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Metronidazole or Tinidazole + Luminal Agent (Diloxanide Furoate)

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Asymptomatic Entamoeba Histolytica Infection

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Diloxanide Furoate

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Giardia Lamblia

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Metronidazole

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Cryptosporidium Parvum

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Nitazoxanide

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Patient with watery, foul-smelling, greenish vaginal discharge accompanied by itching and burning.
Upon speculum examination, there is a finding of strawberry cervix. What is the disease and its treatment?

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Single dose of 2g Metronidazole

Trichomoniasis

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Transmission is via a bite of anopheles flavirostris minimus.
What is the disease and its treatment?

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Malaria
P. Falciparum and P. malariae: Chloroquine
P. Vivax and P. Ovale: Chloroquine + Primaquine

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This causes neonatal disease with hydrocephalus, encephalitis, chorioretinitis, intracranial calcifications.
What is the treatment?

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Sulfadiazine + Pyrimethamine

Toxoplasmosis

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Transmitted by a reduviid bug

What is the parasite and its treatment?

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Trypanosoma Cruzi

Nifurtimox

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Associated with Megacolon and causes Chagas Disease

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Trypanosoma Cruzi

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Transmission of Trypanosoma Brucei

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Tsetse fly (Glossina) bite

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Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis acquired while swimming in contaminated pools

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Naegleria Fowleri

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Transmitted by Sandfly causing Kala-azar.

What is the disease and the treatment?

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Leishmania sp.

Sodium stibogluconate

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Causes Granulomatous Amebic Encephalitis and Amebic Keratitis

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Acanthamoeba Castellani

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Causes Loeffler Syndrome and treatment

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Ascaris Lumbricoides

Albendazole

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Causing cutaneous larva migrans, ground itch,microcytic anemia and hypoalbuminemia

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Hookworm: Necator and Ancylostoma
Txt: albendazole

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Causes diarrhea and Rectal Prolapse

Parasite and treatment?

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Trichuris Trichiuria

Mebendazole

17
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This parasite causes perianal pruritus and diagnosis is through Graham Scotch Tape Technique. What is the treatment?

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Enterobius Vermicularis

Pyrantel Pamoate

18
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A facultative parasite that causes larva currens, ground itch at site of entry, duodenitis, paradoxical asthma and hyperinfection syndrome. It is diagnosed through Harada-Mori Culture. What is the treatment?

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Ivermectin

Strongyloides Stercoralis

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Only nematode whose life cycle involves a migratory bird. Visualized in Kato-Katz technique as peanut shaped eggs with flattened bipolar plugs.

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Capillara Philippinensis

20
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Causing borborygmus, severe malabsorption, protein losing enteropathy, hypogammaglobulinemia.
What is the treatment?

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Albendazole

Capillaria Philipinensis

21
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Patient has leopard skin, dermal nodules and sclerosing keratitis. What is the mode of transmission and drug of choice for the treatment?

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Transmitted by female blackfly (Simulium)
Ivermectin
(Onchocerca Volvulus)

PLE 2019 By Diane Malinao (6 decks)

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