Micro: Diseases And Treatment Flashcards
Amebic Liver Disease
Metronidazole or Tinidazole + Luminal Agent (Diloxanide Furoate)
Asymptomatic Entamoeba Histolytica Infection
Diloxanide Furoate
Giardia Lamblia
Metronidazole
Cryptosporidium Parvum
Nitazoxanide
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?
Single dose of 2g Metronidazole
Trichomoniasis
Transmission is via a bite of anopheles flavirostris minimus.
What is the disease and its treatment?
Malaria
P. Falciparum and P. malariae: Chloroquine
P. Vivax and P. Ovale: Chloroquine + Primaquine
This causes neonatal disease with hydrocephalus, encephalitis, chorioretinitis, intracranial calcifications.
What is the treatment?
Sulfadiazine + Pyrimethamine
Toxoplasmosis
Transmitted by a reduviid bug
What is the parasite and its treatment?
Trypanosoma Cruzi
Nifurtimox
Associated with Megacolon and causes Chagas Disease
Trypanosoma Cruzi
Transmission of Trypanosoma Brucei
Tsetse fly (Glossina) bite
Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis acquired while swimming in contaminated pools
Naegleria Fowleri
Transmitted by Sandfly causing Kala-azar.
What is the disease and the treatment?
Leishmania sp.
Sodium stibogluconate
Causes Granulomatous Amebic Encephalitis and Amebic Keratitis
Acanthamoeba Castellani
Causes Loeffler Syndrome and treatment
Ascaris Lumbricoides
Albendazole
Causing cutaneous larva migrans, ground itch,microcytic anemia and hypoalbuminemia
Hookworm: Necator and Ancylostoma
Txt: albendazole
Causes diarrhea and Rectal Prolapse
Parasite and treatment?
Trichuris Trichiuria
Mebendazole
This parasite causes perianal pruritus and diagnosis is through Graham Scotch Tape Technique. What is the treatment?
Enterobius Vermicularis
Pyrantel Pamoate
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?
Ivermectin
Strongyloides Stercoralis
Only nematode whose life cycle involves a migratory bird. Visualized in Kato-Katz technique as peanut shaped eggs with flattened bipolar plugs.
Capillara Philippinensis
Causing borborygmus, severe malabsorption, protein losing enteropathy, hypogammaglobulinemia.
What is the treatment?
Albendazole
Capillaria Philipinensis
Patient has leopard skin, dermal nodules and sclerosing keratitis. What is the mode of transmission and drug of choice for the treatment?
Transmitted by female blackfly (Simulium)
Ivermectin
(Onchocerca Volvulus)
