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Sketchy: Screamatodes Flashcards

1
Q

What is the tx for Wuchereria bancrofti?

A

Diethylcarbamazine

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Cue:

  • WolfMan, sleeping in a chair with bent legs, wearing a sleep mask with a stinky dog poop bag nearby
A
  • Wolf Man = Toxocara canis
  • bent legs = albendazole (tx)
  • sleep mask = causes blindness
  • dog poop = dog feces transmission
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Cue:

  • Swamp Creature surrounded by flies and covered in spots reading “Diet and Carbs” magazine and sitting in a chair with bent legs
A
  • Swamp Creature = Loa Loa
  • flies = deer fly transmission
  • spots = subcutaneous angioedema
  • Diet and Carbs = Diethylcarbamazine (tx)
  • bent legs = Albendazole (tx)
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4
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How do you get Dracunculus medinensis?

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drinking water contaminated with copepods containing larvae

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5
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What organism is also called African Eyeworm?

A

Loa Loa

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6
Q

Drinking water contaminated with copepods containing larvae will give you _____.

A

Dracunculus medinensis

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7
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What organism can be seen crawling across the pt’s eyeball?

A

Loa Loa

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8
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How is Loa Loa treated?

A

Diethylcarbamazine and Albendazole

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9
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How is Toxocara canis transmitted?

A

food contaminated with dog or cat feces

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10
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How is Loa Loa transmitted?

A

deer flies

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Cue:

  • sign that says “No dumping, drains to river”
A

river = Ivermectin (tx for Onchocerca volvulus)

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12
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How is Onchocerca volvulus treated?

A

Ivermectin (“river mectin”)

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13
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How is Wuchereria bancrofti diagnosed?

A

thick blood smear

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14
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What does Loa Loa cause?

A

transient subcutaneous and conjunctival angioedema

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15
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How is Loa Loa diagnosed?

A

microfilariae present on blood smear

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16
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What is unique about Toxocara canis infections?

A

the larvae never mature within the human- they just circulate for years

17
Q

Cue:

  • coughing Witch lady wearing parachute pants and a shirt with a ruffled collar and sleeves
A
  • coughing = from microfilariae infection in lung
  • witch = Wuchereria bancrofti
  • parachute pants = elephantiasis
  • ruffled collar/sleeves = cervical/axillary lymphadenopathy
18
Q

In Wuchereria bancrofti, _______ travel to the lungs where they cause a hypersensitivity reaction and therefore a cough.

A

microfilariae

19
Q

What are the skin findings for Onchocerca volvulus?

A
  • puritic papules –> hyperpigmented spots
  • hypopigmented spots on shins of older pts (onchodermatitis)
20
Q

What are the 2 most common causes of infectious blindness?

A
  1. Chlamydia trichoma
  2. Onchocerca volvulus
21
Q

In _______, microfilariae travel to the lungs where they cause a hypersensitivity reaction and therefore a cough.

A

Wuchereria bancrofti

22
Q

What causes Visceral/Ocular Larva Migrans?

A

Toxocara canis

23
Q

Cue:

  • Dracula drinking at a water cooler with paper cups attached, and his untied shoelaces wrapped around the legs of the water cooler
A
  • Dracula = Dracunculus medinensis
  • shoes untied = worms crawling out of skin ulcers
  • drinking water = transmission
  • paper cups = cup-e-pods = copepods
  • shoelaces around water cooler = wrap worms around sticks to pull out of pt
24
Q

How is Dracunculus medinensis treated?

A
  • slowly extract worm out of skin using a stick
  • metro
25
Q

How do you get Wuchereria bancrofti?

A

mosquito deposit larvae on the skin –> enter skin and lymphatics

26
Q

Cue:

  • kid in pink shooting granules with a slingshot
A

eosinophils

27
Q

How is Onchocerca volvulus diagnosed?

A

presence of microfilariae in skin biopsy under microscope

28
Q

What organism causes River Blindness?

A

Onchocerca volvulus

29
Q

What is the tx for Toxocara canis?

A

albendazole

30
Q

How does Onchocerca volvulus cause blindness?

A

microfilariae in the eyeball

31
Q

Cue:

  • black fly man with stains on his lab coat and pants
A
  • Onchocerca volvulus
  • black fly = transmission
  • stains = onchodermatitis (hyper and hypo-pigmented spots)
32
Q

In Wuchereria bancrofti, microfilariae travel to the lungs where they cause a _______ and therefore a _____.

A

hypersensitivity reaction, cough

33
Q

What does Wuchereria bancrofti cause?

A

elephantiasis

34
Q

How is Dracunculus medinensis diagnosed?

A

worms come out of ulcers on the pt’s skin (usu lower extremities)

35
Q

Cue:

  • witch reading “Diet and Carb Magazine”
A

tx for Wuchereria bancrofti = Diethylcarbamazine

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