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Parasitic infections Flashcards

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Infection

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Invasion by and growth of pathogenic microorganisms within the body

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Disease

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A disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavourable environmental factors, illness, sickness, ailment

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Parasite

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Organism living in or on the host and dependent on it for nutrition=causing damage

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Endoparasites

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  • Protozoa: amoeba, coccidiae, ciliated, flagellates

- Metazoa: roundworms, flatworms, flukes

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Ectoparasites

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Protozoa

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ENDOPARASITE

  • single celled organisms
  • eukaryotes (genomw within nucleus, complex organelles in cytoplasm)
  • pathogenesis (mechanism of disease) varied
  • some have insect vectors (eg: malaria)
  • no eosinophilia
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Metazoa

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ENDOPARASITE

  • multicellular organisms
  • free living, intermediate hosts and vectors
  • some just inhabit gut (geohelminths), others invade tissues
  • eosinophilia (if they invade blood)
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Types of protozoa

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  • Amoebae
  • Coccidia
  • Ciliates
  • Flagellates
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Amoebae

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Forms:

  • entamoeba histolytica
  • entamoeba dispar
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Coccidia

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-Coccidial infection in humans are mostly zoonoses

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Lab diagnosis of amebiasis

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WET MOUNT

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Symptoms of malaria

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  • fever
  • headache
  • chills
  • vomiting
  • muscle pain
  • paroxysm (cycle in 4-8 hours)
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Complications of malaria

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  • severe anaemia (RBC destruction)
  • cerebral malaria (swelling of brain, seizures, coma)
  • liver failure
  • shock
  • pulmonary oedema
  • abnormally low blood sugar
  • kidney failure
  • swelling and rupture of spleen
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Uncomplicated malaria treatment

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Severe malaria treatment

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Diagnosis of malaria

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  • blood film (Giemsa stained)

- commercially available antigen detection tests (rapid but more expensive and less sensitive)

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Toxoplasma gondii

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Routes of infection:

  • undercooked meat of animals harbouring tissue cysts
  • consuming food or water contaminated with cat faeces
  • contaminated environmental samples
  • blood transfusion
  • organ transplantation
  • transplacentally from mother to foetus
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Major forms of leishmaniases

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  • visceral leismaniasis
  • cutaneous leishmaniasis
  • diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis
  • mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
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Visceral leishmaniasis

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BLACK FEVER (Kala Azar)

  • most severe form=affects internal organs
  • fatal if left untreated
  • characterised by irregular fever, weight loss, liver/spleen swelling and anaemia
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis

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  • skin lesions on exposed body parts
  • often self-healing
  • can create serious disability and scars
  • immunity to reinfection
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Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis

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  • disseminated lesions
  • resembles leprosy difficult to treat
  • no spontaneous healing
  • frequent relapses
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Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis

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  • disfiguring

- destroys mucous membranes

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Epidemiology of amoebae

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  • Entamoeba histolytica infects ~10% of world population
  • third most common cause of death of parasitic infections (after schistosomiasis and malaria)
  • common in south and central America, west and south-east Asia=rare in temperate climates
  • ~90% infections are asymptomatic=remaining 10% produce spectrum of disease varying from dysentry to amoebic liver abscess
  • incubation period may be as short as 7 days
  • tissue invasion mostly during first 4 months of infection
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Amoebae (Entamoeba histolytica) life cycle

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Organisms and associated disease of Coccidia

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  • Plasmodium species= malaria
  • Toxoplasma= toxoplasmosis
  • Cryptosporidium= diarrhoea
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Malaria life cycle

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Malaria epidemiology

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-in 2013, there were ~198 million cases of malaria, causing estimated 584,000 deaths, mostly among African children

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Cryptosporidiosis symptoms

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  • diarrhoea
  • fever
  • nausea and vomiting

-common in HIV positive patients presenting with diarrhoea

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Cryptosporidiosis diagnosis

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Stool examination

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Cryptosporidiosis treatment

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Fluid rehydration

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Ciliates infection symptoms

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  • asymptomatic
  • immunocompromised patients may experience more severe signs and symptoms
  • persistent diarrhoea
  • dysentry
  • abdominal pain
  • weight loss
  • nausea and vomiting

-if left untreated, perforation of the colon can occur

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Ciliates infection diagnosis

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Stool examination

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Giardiasis

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  • commonest, globally distributedm water-borne protozoal infection
  • flagellated trophozooites attach by suckers to surface of duodenal or jejunal mucosa
  • ovoid cysts=able to survive standard chlorination procedures so filtration required to exclude from drinking water

Symptoms=DIARRHOEA

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Leishmania parasite life cycle

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Forms of leishmania

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  • promastigote

- amastigote

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Leishmania promastigotes

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  • form of Leishmania within sand fly vector
  • move in direction of flagellum
  • can be cultured
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Leishmania amastigotes

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  • form of Leishmania within human or other vertebrate host’s cells (resorbed flagellum)
  • no longer motile
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Sand fly biology

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Distribution of Leishmaniasis

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  • 98 countries
  • ~2 million new cases per year
  • more than 350 million people at risk
  • more than 20 Leishmania species
  • more than 30 sandfly species
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Leishmaniasis and HIV co-infections

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