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Parasites Flashcards

1
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entamoeba histolytica

A

intestinal protozoa

  • bloody diarrhea
  • to liver or lungs - forms abscess
  • active disease - trophozoites with intracellular RBCs
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2
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active entamoeba histolytica disease

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trophozoites with intracellular RBCs

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3
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kite shaped trophozoite

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giardia

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4
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drink mountain stream, fatty stool, greasy, frothy, bad smell, cramps

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giardia lambia

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5
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cryptosporidium

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intestinal protozoa

non-bloody diarrhea, life threatening

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6
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giardia lambia

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intestinal protozoa

fatty, greasy, smelly poo

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7
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diarrhea in immunocompromised

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isospora

cyclospora

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8
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eat raspberries get bad diarrhea

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isospora

cyclospora

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9
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isospora

A

intestinal protozoa

diarrhea in immunocompromised

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10
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cyclospora

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intestinal protozoa

diarrhea in immunocompromised

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11
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pruritis, burning, vaginal secretions with highly motile parasite on microscope

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trichomonas vaginalis

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12
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trichomonas vaginalis

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pruritis, burning, secretions

asymptomatic in males

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13
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swimming and 1 week later fever, HA, stiff neck, nausea vomiting, death

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naegleria fowleri

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14
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CSF - high neutrophil, low glucose, high protein, but no gram stain bacteria

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naegleria fowleri

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15
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naegleria fowleri

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swim and die one week later

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16
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headache fever, seizure, corneal infection, blindness

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acanthamoeba

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17
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acanthamoeba

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chronic granuloma brain infection

-in immunocompromised

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18
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balamuthia mandrillaris

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amebic encephalitis with chronic granulomatous skin lesions

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19
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toxoplasma gondii

A

raw pork and kitty litter

infection in AIDS patients

fever, node, liver, spleen enlargement, pneumonia
-growing brain mass on CAT scan
yellow-white fluffy patches on retina

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20
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yellow-white fluffy patches on retina

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toxoplasma gondii

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21
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congenital toxoplasmosis

A

chorioretinitis
blindness
seizures
mental retardation

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22
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pneumocystitis carinii

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lung infection in majority of infections when young

  • then latent
  • PCP in immunocompromised (AIDS #1**)
23
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number one opportunistic infection in AIDS

A

pneumocystitis carinii - PCP

fever, SOB, cough, diffuse bilateral interstitial infiltrates
flying saucer shaped

24
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malaria

A

plasmodium sp

25
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tertian malaria

A

every 48 hours

-p. ovale and vivex

26
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quartan malaria

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every 72 hours

-p malariae

27
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irregular bursts of chills and fevers

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plasmodium falciprum malaria

-deadly

28
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life cycle of malaria

A

sporozoite to blood stream then to liver

  • round up - form trophozoite
  • nuclear division - form schizont
  • membrane form - form merozoite
  • cells burst

merozoites to liver again

  • or RBCs - form tropozoite
  • nuclear division - schizonts
  • membrane form - more merozoites
  • burst
29
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hypnozoites

A

relapse malaria

-with p. vivex and ovale

30
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periods of chills and fevers

A

malaria

31
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plasmodium falciprum

A

dangerous malaria

  • anemia, sticky red cells
  • ischemic kidney, lung, brain
  • cerebral malaria
  • hepatosplenomegaly
32
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duffy A and B

A

surface antigens for binding by plasmodium

-absent some africna americans

33
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babesia microti

A

babesiosis

34
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babesia divergens

A

babesiosis

35
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babesiosis

A

malaria like

  • fever anemia following tick bite
  • northeast US
  • x-shaped maltese cross
36
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babesiosis in asplenic

A

serious infection

37
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sandfly

A

leishmaniasis

38
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blood borne

A

leishmania

trypanosoma

39
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forms of leishmaniasis

A

simple cutaneous
diffuse cutaneous

mucocutaneous leishmaniasis

visceral leishmaniasis

40
Q

ulcer in nose mouth on mucocutaneous border

A

leishmaniasis

41
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kala-azar

A

visceral leishmaniasis

  • young malnourished children
  • abdomen pain, fever, anorexia, weight loss

massive spenomegaly

42
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abdomen pain, fever, anorexia, weight loss, massive splenomegaly, severe anemia with decreased WBC

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kala-azar

-visceral leishmaniasis

43
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skin ulcer that heals in a year, depigmented pale scar

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cutaneous leishmaniasis

44
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tsetse fly

A

trypanosoma species

-african sleeping sickness

45
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hard/red painful ulcer that heals, fever, headache, dizzy, nodes swell, subsides then relapses, daytime drowsiness, coma, death

A

african sleeping sickness

46
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trypansoma brucei gambiense

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west african sleeping sickness

-slow fever, wasting, late neuro sx

47
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trypansoma brucei rhodesiense

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east african sleeping sickness

  • severe
  • death within weeks > months
48
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trypsonoma cruzi

A

chagas disease

49
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chagas disease

A

trypsonoma cruzi
-southern US

acute
intermediate phase
chronic phase

50
Q

reduviid bug

A

trypsonoma cruzi

  • armadillos, possums, rodents
  • chagas disease
51
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acute chagas disease

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chagoma at bite site

-fever, malaise, nodes swell, heart CNS sx, tachycardia, EKG changes

52
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interpediate phase chagas disease

A

no symptoms

53
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chronic phase chagas disease

A

dilated cardiomyopathy

megadisease of colon/esophagus

54
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balantidium coli

A

diarrhea

-pig feces

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