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Sketchy: Plasmodium Flashcards

1
Q

Cue:

stinky warlord with 4 buttons

A

mal odor = Plasmodium malariae

4 buttons = 4 day cyclical fever

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2
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What is the fever pattern for Plasmodium malariae?

A

every 4th day (72 hours)

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3
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Cue:

warlord carrying an oval shield with a liver-shaped spot and an axe trying to hypnotize someone with a pendulum colored in an every-other pattern

A

oval = Plasmodium ovale
axe = Plasmodium vivax
hypnozoites in liver (dormant forms)
every other = fever every 48 hours

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4
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What is the fever pattern for Plasmodium vivax?

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every other day (48 hours)

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5
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What is the fever pattern for Plasmodium ovale?

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every other day (48 hours)

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6
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Cue:

irregularly torn shirt and a red banana-shaped headdress and gold belt and chest plate

A

Plasmodium falciparum
irregular tears = irregular fever
headdress = cerebral malaria (occluded BVs in brain)
banana = banana-shaped on peripheral blood smear
chest plate = occlude vessels in the lungs
gold belt = occlude vessels in the kidneys

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7
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What is the fever pattern for Plasmodium falciparum?

A

irregular

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8
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How is plasmodium diagnosed?

A

blood stain and Giemsa smear to see parasites in RBCs

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9
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What Plasmodium species causes the most severe disease?

A

Plasmodium falciparum

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10
Q

Many anti-malarial drugs end in -____.

A

-quine

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11
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Cue:

Color queen wearing colorful stringed beads

A

chloroquine

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12
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Cue:

Primal Queen wearing animal skins

A

primaquine

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13
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You must check for _____ before giving primaquine, or you could cause severe anemia.

A

G6PD

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14
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You must check for G6PD before giving ______, or you could cause severe anemia.

A

primaquine

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15
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You must check for G6PD before giving primaquine, or you could cause ______.

A

severe anemia

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16
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Cue:

Me-Fly-Queen wearing lots of feathers in a palanquine with luggage on top

A

Me Fly Queen = mefloquine
luggage = prophylaxis for travelers
palanquine = stronger

17
Q

______ can be taken prophylactically by travelers headed to areas with chloroquine-resistant malaria.

A

Mefloquine

18
Q

Cue:

Atova vampire queen inside a palanquine with an inguna and luggage on top

A

atova vampire queen = atovaquone
iguana = proguanil
luggage = prophylaxis for travelers

19
Q

What is the tx for Plasmodium falciparum?

A

arta- drugs: artemisins

atovaquone/proguanil

20
Q

Cue:

artist threatening with a sickle

A

artist = artemisins (tx for falciparum)

sickle cell = protective against Plasmodium falciparum malaria

21
Q

Cue:

artist facing away from the action covered in ivy

A

artesunate

ivy = IV admin

22
Q

Cue:

Dining queen in a palanquine covered in tin cans and ivy

A

dining queen = quinidine
tin cans = tinnitus, HA (cinchonism)
ivy = IV admin

23
Q

What is a SE of quinidine?

A

cinchonism (HA, tinnitus)

24
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Cue:

Cow with liver-shaped, bursting, and ring-shaped spots standing next to red mushrooms

A 
liver = where sporozoites mature into trophozoites 
bursting = schizont release
ring-shaped = infected RBCs
mushrooms = spores
25
Q

Malaria is transmitted via the ______, which carries the sporozoites in its saliva.

A

Anopheles mosquito

26
Q

Malaria is transmitted via the Anopheles mosquito, which carries the ______ in its saliva.

A

sporozoites

27
Q

______ mature to trophozoites in the liver.

A

Sporozoites

28
Q

Sporozoites mature to _____ in the liver.

A

trophozoites

29
Q

Sporozoites mature to trophozoites in the _____.

A

liver

30
Q

_____ divide into merozoites which burst from hepatocytes and infect RBCs.

A

Schizonts

31
Q

Schizonts divide into _____ which burst from hepatocytes and infect RBCs.

A

merozoites

32
Q

Schizonts divide into merozoites which burst from hepatocytes and infect _____.

A

RBCs

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