My Micro Part 2, USMLE Flashcards
Rapidly fatal meningoencephalitis
Naegleria fowleri
Tachyzoite on biopsy
T. gondii
Swimming in freshwater lakes; enters via cribriform plate
Naegleria
[Think Nalgene bottle filled
with fresh water containing Naegleria]
Toxoplasma gondii, treatment
Sulfadiazine + Pyrimethamine
Amoebas in spinal fluid
Naegleria fowleri
Diagnosis of trypanosome brucei
Blood smear
Origin of single flagellum of hemoflagellates
Kinetoplast
Location of kinetoplast in trypomastigote
Posterior
Falling leaf motility
G. lamblia
Scrub typhus
R. tsutsugamushi
Leishmania, vector
Sandflies (phlebotomus)
Trypanosoma brucei, vector
Glossina/tsetse fly
Trypanosoma cruzi, vector
Reduviid bug
Hemoflagellate that characteristically assumes a C or U shape in stained blood films
T. cruzi
Has an intracellular amastigote stage in cardiac muscles and other tissues
T. cruzi
Winterbottom sign
T. brucei
Romaña sign
T. cruzi
West African sleeping sickness
T. brucei gambiense
Eastern and central african sleeping sickness
T. brucei rhodesiense
T. brucei gambiense vs T. brucei rhodesiense: More severe
T. brucei rhodesiense
T. brucei, treatment for blood-borne diseases
Suramin
T. brucei, treatment for CNS penetration
Melarsoprol
Tertian malaria
1) P. vivax
2) P. ovale
Quartan malaria
P. malariae
Fever on 1st and 3rd day (every 48 hours)
P. vivax and ovale
Fever every 72 hours
P. malariae
Dormant form in the liver
Hypnozoite
Plasmodia that have dormant forms in liver
P. vivax and ovale
Contain merozoites
Schizonts
Anti-malarial that blocks heme polymerise of plasmodium
Chloroquine
Malaria treatment: Alternative for resistance to Chloroquine
Mefloquine or atovaquone/proguanil
Treatment for life-threatening malaria
IV quinidine or artesunate
Anti-malarial for hypnozoites
Primaquine
Use of these drugs require test for G6PD
1) Artesunate
2) Primaquine
Maltese cross on blood smear
Babesia
Fever and hemolytic anemia; asplenia increases risk of serve disease
Babesia
Dilated cardiomyopathy with
apical atrophy, megacolon, megaesophagus;
T. cruzi
Visceral leishmaniasis
Leishmania donovani
Visceral leishmaniasis is aka
Kala-azar
T/F T. vaginalis can form cysts hence can exist outside human
F, cannot form cysts, cannot exist outside humans
Unilateral periorbital swelling during the acute stage of disease
Chagas disease (Romaña sign)
T. cruzi, treatment
Benznidazole or nifurtimox
Spiking fevers, hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia
Visceral leishmaniasis
L. donovani diagnosis
Amastigotes in macrophages
L. donovani, treatment
Amphotericin B
Strawberry cervix
T. vaginalis
Roundworm obstructing ileocecal valve
A. lumbricoides
Roundworm that causes epigastric pain, feeling like peptic ulcer
S. stercoralis
Roundworms that cause anemia
Hookworms
Treatment for roundworms
Bendazoles
Treatment for S. stercoralis
Ivermectin
Treatment for hookworms
Pyrantel pamoate
Larvae enter bloodstream and encyst in striated muscle cells
T. spiralis
Black flies, black skin nodules, black sight (river blindness)
Onchocerca volvulus
Treatment for O. volvulus
Ivermectin
Deer fly, horse fly, mango fly
Loa loa
Elephantiasis
W. bancrofti
Allergic reaction to microfilaria
O. volvulus
Swelling in skin, worm in conjunctiva
Loa loa
W. bancrofti, vector
Female mosquito
Visceral larva migrans
Toxocara canis
Blockage of lymphatics by W. bancrofti becomes symptomatic when
9 mod-1 year after bite
Treatment for Loa loa and W. bancrofti
DEC
Nematode routes of infection: Ingested
Enterobius, Ascaris, Toxocara, Trichinella
[You’ll get sick if you EATT these!]
Nematode routes of infection: Cutaneous
Strongyloides, Ancylostoma, Necator
[These get into your feet from the SANd.]
Nematode routes of infection: Bites
Loa loa, Onchocerca volvulus, Wuchereria bancrofti
[Lay LOW to avoid getting bitten.]
Ingestion of larvae from raw freshwater fish causes infection
D. latum
Means by which T. solium is acquired causing INTESTINAL infection
Ingestion of encysted larvae in undercooked pork
Cysticercosis, neurocysticercosis
T. solium
Means by which T. solium is acquired causing cysticercosis and/or neurocysticercosis
Ingestion of eggs
Intermediate host of E. granulosus
Sheep
Cestode: Vitamin B12 deficiency
D. latum
Hydatid cyst
E. granulosus
Done prior to removal of hydatid cyst to prevent anaphylaxis from released daughter cysts from liver
Injection with ethanol or hypertonic saline
Treatment for cestodes except E. granulosus
Praziquantel
Treatment for E. granulosus
Albendazole
Treatment for neurocysticercosis
Albendazole
Host of schistosoma
Snails
Mode of transmission of schistosoma
Penetration of skin
Schistosoma: Hepatosplenomegaly
S. mansoni