micro - mycology/parasitology

Question 1

bird/bat droppings, pnemomia, ohio and mississpi river valleys

Answer 1

histo

Question 2

treatment for local mycoses

Answer 2

fluconazole, itraconazole

Question 3

treatment for systemic mycoses

Answer 3

amphotericin B

Question 4

inflammatory lung dx spreading to bone and skin, forming granulamtous nodles

Answer 4

blasto

Question 5

macrophage filled with spores

Answer 5

histo

Question 6

broad based budding - size of RBC

Answer 6

blasto

Question 7

pnemonia and meningitis in SW US. can spread to bone and skin

Answer 7

coccidomycosis

Question 8

sphericle filled with endospores (bigger than RBC)

Answer 8

coccidomycosis

Question 9

captains wheel budding yeast from latin america

Answer 9

paracoccidomycosis

Question 10

spegetti and meatball on KOH. hypo/hyperpigmented patches

Answer 10

tinea versicolor

Question 11

treatment for tinea versicolor

Answer 11

topical miconazole, selsun

Question 12

treatment for candidia

Answer 12

fluconazole or caspofungin for oral/esophageal

fluconazole, amphotericin B for systemic

Question 13

yeasts with heavy halo-like capsules, stains with india ink

Answer 13

cryptococcus neoformans

Question 14

erosive facial fungi in diabetic/leukemia pts

branches at wide angles

Answer 14

mucor/rhizopus

Question 15

causes PCP in AIDS pts

Answer 15

pneumocystis jirovecii

Question 16

treatment for pneumocystis jirovecii

Answer 16

TMP-SMX, pentamidine, dapsone

Question 17

cigar shaped budding yeast lives on vegitation - “rose gardener’s “

Answer 17

sporothix

Question 18

treatment for sporothrix

Answer 18

itraconazole or KOH

Question 19

bloating, flatulance, foul smellng fatty diarehha

Answer 19

giardia

Question 20

transmission/treatment for giardia

Answer 20

cysts in water/metronidazole

Question 21

dysenterry, lover abcess, RUQ pain

Answer 21

entamomeba histolytica

Question 22

transmission/treatment for entamomeba histolytica

Answer 22

cysts in water/metronidazole

Question 23

severe diarrhea in AIDS pt. stains acid fast

Answer 23

crypto

Question 24

brain abcess in HIV and causes congential brain lesions

Answer 24

toxoplasmosis

Question 25

treatment for toxoplasmosis

Answer 25

sulfadiazine +pyrimethamine

Question 26

rapidly fatal protozoa menigioencephalitits from swimming in freashwater lakes

Answer 26

naegleria fowleri

Question 27

causes sleeping sickness

Answer 27

typansoma

Question 28

sx of sleeping sickness

Answer 28

enlarged lymph nodes, recurring fever, somnolecence, coma

Question 29

treatment for sleeping sickness

Answer 29

suramin (blood) | melersoprol (CNS)

Question 30

really severe malaris

Answer 30

p falciparum

Question 31

dormant form of malaria

Answer 31

hypnozite (in liver)

Question 32

72 hr cycle malaris

Answer 32

P malariae

Question 33

dx of malaria

Answer 33

blood smear for trophozite ring, RBC schizont eith merozoites

Question 34

sx of malaria

Answer 34

fever, headache, anemia, splenomegaly

Question 35

tx for malaria

Answer 35

chloroquine (blocks plasmodium heme polymerase) | mefloquine if resistanr

Question 36

tx for severe malaria

Answer 36

IV quinidine (test for G6PD deficicncy)

Question 37

tx for vivax/ovale

Answer 37

choroquine + primaquine

Question 38

fever and hemolytic fever in NE US

Answer 38

babesiosis

Question 39

transmitts babesiosis

Answer 39

ixodes tick (dx with "maltese crosses on blood smear)

Question 40

treatment for babesiosis

Answer 40

atovaqone and azithromycin

Question 41

causes chagas dx

Answer 41

trypansomoa cruzi - transmited by reduviid bug

Question 42

sx of chagas dx

Answer 42

dilated colon, cardiomyopathy, megaesophagus

Question 43

tx for chagas

Answer 43

nifurtimox

Question 44

transmitts leishmaniasis

Answer 44

sandfly

Question 45

sx of leishmaniasis

Answer 45

spiking fever, hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia

Question 46

tx for leishmaniasis

Answer 46

stibogluconate

Question 47

tx for pinworm, roundworm, hookworm

Answer 47

bendzole or pyrantel pamoate

Question 48

worms that cause anemia

Answer 48

strongyloides and hookworm

Question 49

tx for strongyloides

Answer 49

ivermactin or albendazole

Question 50

causes hyperpigmented skin and river blindness

Answer 50

onchocerca volvulvus (from female black fly)

Question 51

tx for onchocerca volvulvus

Answer 51

ivermectin

Question 52

tx for loa loa and wuchereria banctofti

Answer 52

diethylcarbamazine

Question 53

nematodes infected by oral route

Answer 53

enterobius ascarias, trichinella

Question 54

cutaneous infected nematodes

Answer 54

stronglyoides, ancclystoma, necator

Question 55

DOC for most nematodes and flukes

Answer 55

praziquantel

Question 56

parasite that can cause B12 deficncey

Answer 56

latum tapeworm (from freshwater fish)

Question 57

causesa liver cysts that can lead to anaphylaxis

Answer 57

echinococcus granulosus (from dog feces)

Question 58

fluke that can lead to SSC of bladder

Answer 58

schistosoma

Question 59

parasite - brain cysts and seizures

Answer 59

taenia solium

Question 60

parasite - liver cysts

Answer 60

echinococcus granulosus

Question 61

parasite - biliary tract sx and cholangiocarcinoma

Answer 61

clonorchis sinensis

Question 62

parasite hemoptysis

Answer 62

paragonimus westermani

Question 63

parasite portal hypertension

Answer 63

schitosoma mansoni

Question 64

parasite microcytic anamia

Answer 64

accylostoma, necator