Parasites Flashcards
Anchovy paste liver abscess
Entamoeba
Inverted flask shaped lesions
Entamoeba
Chromatin spoke nuclei
Entamoeba
Falling leaf motility
Giardiasis
Dots in intestinal glands
Crypto
Trails on bacterial plates
Naeglaria
Contact lens solution
Acanthamoeba
Star shaped cysts on biopsy
Acanthamoeba
Schizony is sexual/asexual
Asexual phase in humans
Ameboid trophozoits
Vivax
Oval jagged rbc
Ovale
Bar and band forms with rosette schizonts
Malariae
Multiple ring forms with crescent gametes
Falciparum
Amastigotes in macrophages
Leishmania
Oval cells without flagella or undulating membrane
Amastigote
High csf ig
Trypanosome brucei etc
Tx leishmania
Sodium stibogluconate
Tx sleeping sickness
Suramin then melarsoprol
Dx of babesia
Giemsa or hamster inoculation
Bile stained knobby eggs
Ascaris
Barrel shaped eggs with bipolar plugs
Trichuris
Ciliated protozoa
Balantidium
Trench fever and epidemic typhus
Pediculus louse
Enteritis, flu symptoms, petechiae, peri orbital edema, muscle calcifications/pain +eosinophilia
Trichinosis 2/2 trichenella