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Parasitology and Pathogenesis of Parasite Infections Flashcards

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What is a parasite

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A parasite is an organism that lives on or in a host organism and gets its food from or at the expense of its host.

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What are the three main classes of parasites that cause disease in humans

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  • Protozoa
  • Helminths
  • Ectoparasites
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What are protazoa

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  • Protozoa are microscopic, single-celled, free-living or parasitic organisms.
  • They are able to multiply in humans allowing serious infections to develop from a single organism.
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How are protozoa trasmitted

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  • Protozoa living in the human intestine can be transmitted by the fecal-oral
    route
    -Protozoa living in blood or tissues are transmitted by an arthropod vector
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How are protozoa classified

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They are classified by they mode of movement

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What are the different groups of protozoa

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  • Amoeba, e.g. Entamoeba
  • Flagellates, e.g. Giardia, Leishmania
  • Ciliates e.g. Balantidium
  • Sporozoa – organisms whose adult stage is not motile e.g. Plasmodium, Cryptosporidium
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Name some medically important protozoa infections

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  • Entamoeba histolytica
  • Giardia lamblia
  • Trichomonas vaginalis
  • Malaria (Plasmodium spp.)
  • Toxoplasma gondii
  • Cryptosporidium
  • Leishmania spp.
  • Trypansoma cruzi
  • Trypansoma brucei (gambiense/rhodesiense)
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What are helminths

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Helminths are large, multicellular organisms (worms) generally visible
to the naked eye in their adult stages. In their adult form, helminths cannot multiply in humans.

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What are the main groups of helminths

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  • Nematodes (roundworms)
  • Trematodes (flukes)
  • Cestodes (tapeworms)
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List some medically important helminths - nematodes

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Soil-transmitted helminths:

  • Ascaris lumbricoides
  • Trichuris trichiura
  • Hookworm spp.
  • Enterobius vermicularis

Filarial parasites:

  • Wuchereria bancrofti
  • Loa loa
  • Onchocerca volvulus
  • Dracunculus medinensis

Others:

  • Toxocara canis/cati
  • Trichinella spiralis
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List some medically important helminths - Trematodes

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  • Schistosoma mansoni/haematobium/jap nicum
  • Clonorchis sinensis
  • Fasciola hepatica
  • Paragonimus spp.
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List some medically important helminths - cestodes

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  • Taenia saginata
  • Taenia solium
  • Echinococcus granulosus
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What are ectoparasites

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Blood-sucking arthropods such as ticks, fleas, lice, and mites that attach or burrow into the skin and remain there for relatively long periods of time (e.g., weeks to months).

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List some medically important ectoparasites

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Mites:

  • Scabies
  • Trombiculid

Ticks:

  • Hard
  • Soft

Lice:

  • Pediculus humanus capitis
  • Pediculus humanus humanus
  • Pthirus pubis

Flies:

  • Botflies
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Where are causes of high incidence rates of parasite infections

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  • Tropic and subtropic climates
  • Temperate climates
  • In rural areas of low-income countries
  • High migration
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What types of hosts can parasites have in their life cycle

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  • Intermediate – host in which larval or asexual stages develop
  • Definitive – host in which adult or sexual stage occurs
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What are the type of vector parasites can have

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  • Mechanical when no development of parasite in vector
  • Biological when some stages of life cycle occur
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What are the determinants of parasite infections

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  • Depends on mode of transmission and opportunities for transmission
  • Faeco-oral
  • Food
  • Complex life cycles
  • Others
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What are the Faeco-oral determinants of parasite infections

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  • Household sanitation
  • Access to clean water
  • Personal hygiene behaviours
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What are the food related determinants of parasite infections

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  • Animal husbandry
  • Surveillance
  • Regulations and government controls
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How can complex life cycles be a determinant of parasite infections

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There are distributions of vectors and intermediate/definitive hosts

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What are the other determinants of parasite infections

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  • Government resources and level of human development/per capita income
  • Education
  • Country-level and regional control programmes
  • Availability of cheap and efficacious treatments
  • Construction and building regulations (eg Chagas)
  • Urban vs. rural residence
  • Environmental sanitation
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Describe the life cycle of Trypansoma cruzi

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  • Triatomine bug takes a blood meal
  • Metacyclic trypomastigotes penetrate various cells at the bite wound site. Transform not amastigotes inside cells
  • Multiply by binary fission in infected tissue cells
  • Transform into trypomastigotes then burst out into the bloodstream
  • Triatomine bug takes a blood meal and trypomastigotes ingested
  • Epimastogtes in midgut multiply and become metacyclic trypomastigotes in hind gut
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What are the three phases of the Chagas disease

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  • Acute
  • Chronic ‘indeterminate’
  • ‘Determinate’ Chronic disease
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Describe the onset of the acute phase of Chagas

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  • Incubation 1-2 weeks after bite
    – Up to months after transfusion
    – Trypanosomes in blood
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Describe the symptoms in acute chagas

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Occurs within 3 weeks
Generally mild or asymptomatic:

  • Local swelling (Romaña)
  • Nodule or chagoma
  • Fever
  • Anorexia
  • Lymphadenopathy

1-2% diagnosed

Symptoms last 8-10 wks

Rarely (young and IS):

  • Hepatopsplenomegaly
  • Acute myocarditis
  • Meningoencephalitis
  • Fatality <5% of
    symptomatic
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Describe the Chronic ‘intermediate’ phase of chagas

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  • Lifelong infection
  • Generally trypanosomes not detectable but often positive for parasite DNA
  • Seropositive
  • 60-70%
  • Normal ECG and X-rays
  • Cardiomyopathy/Heart failure
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Describe the ‘Determinate’ Chronic disease phase of Chagas

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  • Seropositive
  • 30-40% of infected 10-30 years after infection
  • 5-10% develop chronic Chagas immediately after acute disease
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What is the digestive effect of chronic chagas

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  • Develops in 10-15% of patients with chronic infections
  • Esophagus, rectum, and sigmoid colon are most affected
  • Patients present with constipation
  • Complications seen as: Faecaloma, Obstruction, Sigmoid volvulus, Ulceration, Perforation
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Describe the pathogenesis in acute chagas

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  • Tissue damage caused by inflammatory response to parasites in nests of
    amastigotes in cardiac, skeletal, and smooth muscle
  • Parasite killing by antibodies, activated innate immune response and Th1 pro- inflammatory cytokines.
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Describe the pathogenesis in intermediate chagas

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Regulatory immune response characterized by IL-10 and IL-17

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Describe The pathogenesis in chronic chagas

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  • Chronic inflammatory response to persistent parasites in muscle and nerve cells
  • Autoimmune mechanisms
  • May vary by parasite strain and tissue tropism
  • Predominance of Th1 cytokines and CD8+ T cells
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Describe the existence of the Leishmaniasis disease across the world

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Visceral leishmaniasis:

  • Asia - Leishmania donovani
  • Middle East/Africa/Asia - L. infantum variants
  • Latin America - L. chagasi

Cutaneous leishmaniasis:

  • Mediterranean/Middle East - L. Infantum/L. major/L. tropica
  • Central and South America - L. braziliensis/amazonensis/mexicana
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Describe the life cycle of Leishmaniasis

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  • Sand fly bites skin
  • Promastogote enters and is engulfed by histiocyte
  • Multiply by binary fission in cell
  • Amastigotes released from histiocytes and can infect other cells
  • When sand-fly bites again it takes up amastigotes
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What is the vector for leishmaniasis

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Lutzomyia/Phlebotomus
Sand-fly

Bites at night and is small enough to fit though mosquito nets

36
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what can act as reservoirs for leishmaniasis

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  • Domestic animals
  • Sylvatic animals
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What forms can cutaneous leishmaniasis show up as

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  • Small papule
  • Plaques
  • Ulcers

Diagnosed by scarping ulcer and analysing with microscope

38
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Describe the effect of diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis

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Occurs when individuals cannot mount an immune response against the parasite

Highly pappilated

39
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Describe the symptoms faced in mucocutaneous leishmaniasis

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  • Destruction of soft tissue in nose and facial regions.
40
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What is the pathogenesis in acute lesions of cutaneous leishmaniasis

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  • Tissue damage caused by inflammatory response to presence of parasites in
    macrophages
  • Parasite killing by Th1 pro-inflammatory responses and macrophage killing.
41
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What is the pathogenesis in latent cutaneous leishmaniasis

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Parasites remain present long-term. Regulatory immune response characterized by balance of Th1 and anti-inflammatory responses

42
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What is the pathogenesis in relapse of cutaneous leishmaniasis?

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Alteration in immune response (i.e change in Th1 vs. immune regulation secondary to HIV, malnutrition) may trigger relapse:

  • Mucocutaneous disease associated with strong but inadequate inflammatory response to
    parasites that have metastasized to mucosa
  • Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis associated with uncontrolled parasite replication
  • Recividans – recurrence of lesions at old ulcer site.
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What are the three main species involved in schistosmiasis

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  • Schistosoma mansoni
  • S. haematobium
  • S. japonicum
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Describe the life cycle of schistosomiasis

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  • Miracidia enters snails and undergo cycle
  • Cercaria emerges from snails
  • Enter host by penetrating skin or mucous membranes
  • Migrate via the heart to the portal vein
  • Schistosmula develops into male and female adult worms in portal and mesenteric veins
  • Worms copulate and move to vesicle veins, eggs are deposited and extruded through bladder mucosa
  • Eggs are passed in urine
  • Eggs hatch and release mircidia in water
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Describe the presentation of cercarial dermatitis due to schistosomiasis

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  • Exposure to cercariae from
    animal or bird schistosomes
  • Requires pre-sensitization
  • Allergic-type reaction
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What are the key features of immune response in granuloma formation

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  • Eggs become organized in granulomas
  • Repeated insults and tissue repair leads to fibrosis and
    organ damage
  • Cirrhosis - Damage of the liver by the eggs
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Describe Hepato-intestinal schistosomiasis

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Infections with
S.mansoni and S.
japonicum

Pathology caused by
immune response to
eggs

Causes hepatospenomagaly

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Describe Urinary schistosomiasis

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Damage to bladder by granulomas and damage to epithelial layer when eggs are pushed through

Blood present in the kidney - Haematuria

Higher risk of carcinoma of baldder

49
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What is Onchocerciasis

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  • Major blinding disease
  • Caused by filarial parasite ( Onchocerca
    volvulus)
  • Transmitted by blackflies
  • Causes river blindness
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Describe the lifecycle of onchocera volvulus

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  • Black fly takes a blood meal, L3 larvae enter at bite wound
  • Grows into adults in subcutaneous tissue
  • Adults produce unsheathed microfilarie that is found in skin but also in urine and sputum
  • Black fly takes a blow mean and ingests microfilarie
  • They penetrate blackly’s midgut and migrate to thoracic muscles
  • Become L1 Larvae
  • Become L3 larvae
  • Migrate to head and blackly’s proboscis
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what is the vector for onchocerca

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The simulium, a species of fly

52
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Describe the pathology of onchocerciasis

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Repeated episodes of inflammation to presence of microfilariae leads to permanent damage and scarring in skin and eyes

53
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How does microfilariae present in patient

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  • Presents as little bumps on the skin
  • An inflammatory response to microfilariae in the skin
54
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How is onchocerciasis a clinical disease

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Onchocercal nodules

Skin disease:

  • Acute papular onchodermatitis
  • Chronic onchodermatitis
  • sowda

Eye disease:

Anterior segment:

  • Punctate keratitis
  • Acute iridocyclitis
  • Sclerosing keratitis

Posterior segment:

  • Optic neuritis/atrophy
  • Chorioretinopathy
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What is acute papular onchodermatitis

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Bumps on the skin as an immune response to nodules

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How does chronic onchodermatitis present

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  • Present as elephants skin symptoms
  • Chronic inflammatory response
57
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How does punctate keratitis present

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damage to the eye

58
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How does sclerosis keratitis present

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Occlusion of the cornea

59
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how does chorioretinopathy present

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retina damage

60
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How does optic atrophy present

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Damage to optic nerve

61
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What diseases are transmitted via hard ticks

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  • Tick typhus
  • Viral Encephalitis
  • Viral fevers
  • viral hemorrhagic fevers
  • Tularemia
  • Tick paralysis
  • Human babesiosis
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What diseases are transmitted by soft ticks

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  • Q fever
  • Relapsing fever
63
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why are ticks medically important

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  • Mechanical injury by the bite
  • Tick paralysis
  • Tick’s toxins produce a block in motor nerve fibres
  • Ticks are carriers of many diseases
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What are head lice

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  • Suck blood from the scalp and lay eggs in the hair
  • easily spread with contact and sharing of combs
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What are body lice

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  • Sucks blood from the body and lays eggs on clothing
  • Spread by bodily contact, sharing of clothing and bedding
  • Vectors for diseases such as epidemic typhus, trench fever and relapsing fever
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What are crab lice

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  • Broad,flat lice that appear crab-like
  • Mid and hind legs are stout with very large claws
  • Abdominal segments have distinct lateral lobes
  • Pthirus pubs confined to human pubic region
67
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What drugs are used to control Protozoa

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  • Tinidazole
  • Metronidazole
  • Nitazoxanide
  • Benznidazole
  • Heavy Metals
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What drugs are used to control Helminths

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  • Albendazole/mebendazole
  • Praziquantel
  • Ivermectin
  • Diethylcarbamazine
  • Pyrantel
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What drugs are used to control Ectoparasites

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  • Ivermectin
  • Benzyl/malathion Lotions
70
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What behavioural changes can control parasite infection

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  • Education
  • Hand washing and hygiene behaviour
71
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What environmental interventions can control parasite infections

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  • Spraying of residual insecticides for household vectors
  • Mosquito nets for malaria
  • Improved housing
  • Sewage disposal and potable water
  • Drainage of swamps
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How else can parasite infections be controlled

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For many parasite infections in an endemic settings, treatment must
be given periodically or periodically over long periods of time because
re-infections are rapid or because the treatment kills larval rather
than adult stages

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