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Flask shaped colon ulcers

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Amebiasis

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Brownian movement

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Entomoeba histolytica

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Most common extraintestinal form of amoeba

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Amebic liver disease

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Anchovy sauce like aspirate

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Amoebiasis

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Backpacker’s diarrhea

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Giardia lamblia

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Falling leaf motility

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Giardia lamblia

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Excessive flatus, smelling like rotten eggs, steatorrhra

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Giardia lamblia

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Acid fast parasite

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Cryptosporidium parvum

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Pear shaped, flagellated trophozoite

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Trichomonas vaginalis

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Pingpong transmission

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Trichomonas vaginalis

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Strawberry cervix

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Trichomonas vaginalis

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Most important parasitic disease in man

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Plasmodium

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MOT of plasmodium

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Bite of Anopheles flavirostitis minimus

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Seen in patients who completely recover from falciparum malaria

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Premonition

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Malignant tertian fever

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P falciparum

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Benign tertian fever

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P vivax

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Benign quartan fever

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P malariae

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Benign tertian

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P ovale

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Recrudescence is seen in

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P falciparum and malariae

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Relapse is seen in

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P ovale and p vivax

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Used for identification of plasmodium

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Thin smear giemsa stain

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Punctate granulations in RBCs invaded by plasmodium

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Schuffner dots- p ovale and vivax

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Coarse granulations present in RBCs invaded by plasmodium

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Maurer dots- p falciparum

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Fine dots present in RBCs invaded by plasmodium

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Ziemann dots- p malariae

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Durck granulomas

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Cerebral malaria

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Severe complication of p falciparum malaria characterized by intravascular hemolysis, massive hemoglobinuria and acute renal failure

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Blackwater fever

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Septic shock in malaria

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Algid malaria

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Preferred diagnostic test for toxoplasmosis

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IgM antibody

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28
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Ring enhancing lesions of CT scan

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Encephalitis- toxoplasmosis

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Intracranial calcifications

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Congenital toxoplasmosis

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T cruzi is transmitted by

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Reduviid bug

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Most commonly affected muscle in chagas

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Cardiac

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Unilateral periorbital edema

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Romana’s sign- acute Chagas disease

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Nodule near bite

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Chagoma- acute chagas

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Remarkable antigenic variation

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Trypanosoma brucei

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MoT for trypanosoma

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Tsetse fly(glossina)

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36
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Sleeping sickness

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Trypanosoma brucei

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Enlargement of posterior cervical LN

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Winterbottom’s sign- Trypanosoma brucei

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Hyperesthesia in Trypanosoma brucei infxn

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Kerandel’s sign

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Plasma cells with cytoplasmic Ig globules

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Mott cells- Trypanosoma brucei

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40
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Algal blooms cause red tide

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Dinoflagellates

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41
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Most common cause of red tide in the PH

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Pyrodinium Bahamanse var Compressum

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Facial paresthesia, total paralysis, respiratory failure

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Paralytic syndrome- saxitoxin -Dinoflagellates

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Facial paresthesia, slurred speech, ataxia, diarrhea

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Neurotoxic syndrome- brevetoxin- Dinoflagellates

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Toxin for diarrhetic syndrome

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Okadaic acid

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Diarrhea, short term memory loss, seizures

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Amnesic syndrome- domoic acid- Dinoflagellates

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Granulomatous amebic encephalitis

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Acanthamoeba castellanii

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Primary amebic meningoencephalitis

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Nargletia fowleri

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Swimming in contaminated pools

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Naeglaria fowleri

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Only ciliated protozoan to cause human disease

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Balantidial dysentery

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Round based, wide necked intestinal ulcers

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Balantidium coli

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Ixodes tick

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Babesia microti

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Maltese cross

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Babesiosis

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Sandfly(phlebotomus)

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Leishmaniasis

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Causes diarrhea in IC patients

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Cyclospora cayetanensis and isospora belli

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Cyst rupture can lead to life threatening anaphylaxis

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Echinococcus granulosus

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Honeycomb vesicles

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Echinococcus multilocularis

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Foxes

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Echinococcus multilocularis

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Most common tapeworm in developed countries

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Hymenolepsis nana

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Dwarf tapeworm

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Hymenolepsis nana

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Rat tapeworm

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Hymenolepsis diminuta

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Most common tapeworm of dogs and cats

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Dipylidium caninum

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Intermediate host of schistosoma japanicum

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Oncomelania hupensis quadrais

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Diagnosis of schistosoma japonicum

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Kato katz technique, circumoval precipitin test

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Swimmer’s itch

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Schistosoma japonicum

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Katayama fever

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Schistosoma japonicum

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Intermediate hosts for paragonimus westermani

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Snail, mountain crab

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Diagnosis for paragonimus westermani

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Ring shadow opacity

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Paragonimus westermani

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Melon like ridges

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Clonorchis sinensis

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Clonorchis sinensis

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Klatskin tumor - cholangiocarcinoma

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Watercress

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Fasciola hepatica

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Obstructive jaundice and painful pharyngitis

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Halzuon - Fasciola hepatica

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Worm intoxication

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Fasciolopsis buski

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Mimics peptic ulcer disease

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Heterophyes heterophyes

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Most common and largest intestinal nematode

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Ascaris lumbricoides

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Loeffler’s syndrome

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Ascaris (hypersensitivity pneumonitis)

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Cutaneous larva migrans

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Necator and ancylosyoma

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Whipworm

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Trichuris trichura

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Chinese lantern/ barrel shaped eggs with bipolar plugs

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Trichuris trichura

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Rectal prolapae

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Trichuris trichura

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Pinworm; seatworm

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Enterobius vermicularis

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Most common STH in developed countries

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Enterobius vermocularis

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Graham’s Scotch tape technique

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Enterobius vermocularis (D shaped eggs)

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Diagnosis of strongyloides

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Harada mori culture

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Only nematode whose life cycle invloves a migratory bird

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Capillaria philipinensis

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Peanut shaped eggs with flattened bipolar plugs

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Capillaria philipinensis

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Borborygmus

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Capillaria philipinensis

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Protein losing enteropathy

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Capillaria philipinensis

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Most debilitating nematode infection

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Wuchereria and brugia

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Farmer from abaca

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Wuchereria/brugia

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Nocturnal periodicity

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Wuchereria/brugis

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Meyer’s Kouvenaar bodies

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Wuchereria/Brugia

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Chyluria

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Wuchereria/Brugia

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Nurse cell

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Trichinelle spiralis

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Hemorrhagic phenomena

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Trichinella spiralis

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Female blackfly

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Onchocerca volvulus

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Dermal nodules, hanging groin, lizard skin, river blindness

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Onchocerca volvulus

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Mazzoti rxn

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Onchocerca volvulus

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Deer or mango fly

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Calabar swelling

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Worm crawling across the conjunctiva

102
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Serpents of israelites

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Dracunculus medinensis

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Live worm in skin ulcer

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Dracunculus medinensis

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Doc ascaris

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Toxocara canis

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Most common cause of parasitic meningitis

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Angiostrongylus cantonensis

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Eosinophilic gastroenteritis

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Anisakis simplex

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