Themes - Cal Flashcards
Transplacental?
TOXOplasmosis gondii
trichomonas can also be passed mother-fetus during birth
Lymphatic filariasis?
Wucheria bancrofti
Brugia malayi
Deadliest form of malaria is found where?
Plasmodium falciparum… found worldwide but especially WEST sub-saharan Africa
Which malaria is in Sub-Saharan Africa?
P. ovale
Which malaria is in S. America / India / SE Asia?
P. vivax (most common)
Which malaria si found in SE asia and is still considered a zoonotic malaria?
P. knowlesi
Which malaria is in S. America / Asia / Africa?
P. malariae ( but less frequent than P. falciparum)
transplacental?
Toxoplasma gondii (humans)
Toxocara canis and catie - Visceral Larval Migrans (transplacentally or breast milk via puppies)
ingestion of fish?
Diphylobothrium
OR
Clonorchis sinensis
Free living amoeba, potentially affecting the CNS?
Naegleria fowleri
OR
Acathamoeba spp (more likely to affect eyes… contact solution)
Active penetration
Strongyloides stercoralis (threadworm)
Ancyclostoma duodenale (Old worm hookworm)
Necator americanus (New world hookworm)
Naegleria fowleri (through nasal passages)
Schistosoma spp (japonicum, haemotobium, mansoni)
Aquatic vegetation?
Fasciola buski (giant intestinal fluke)
Fasciola hepatica (sheep liver fluke)
‘gotes?
Trypanosoma: metacyclic trypomastigotes –> trypomastigotes
Leishmania: promastigote –> amastigote
When you think Embryonated Egg in Feces think…
If that’s not enough think sheep intermediate hosts and dog definitive host
Echinococcus
where do you find hydatid cysts?
How do you diagnose and treat?
What is hydatid sand and what can it cause?
Echinococcus
CT/ ultrasound / scanning and treat with SURGICAL RESECTION
hydatid sand are the protoscolices that are liberated from the brood capsules of a hydatid cyst… they can cause ANAPHYLAXIS
‘gotes?
Trypanosoma: metacyclic trypomastigoes –> trypomastigotes
Leishmania: promastigote –> amastigote
CSF?
Naegleria fowleri
Acathamoeba spp
Trypanosoma brucei
(Toxoplasmosis gondii possible)
Parasites w/ heart habitat?
not necessarily heart ONLY…
Trypanosome cruzi
(A. lumbricoides travels THROUGH heart from small intestine to lungs)
Echinococcus MIGHT make its way to the heart
Surgical tx/removal?
Taenia solium (cysticerci)
Echinococcus (hydatid cyst)
ALSO
Spirometra (sparganosis)
Dracunculus medinensis
Loa loa
Onchocerca volvulus
Intestinal nematodes?
Ascaris lumbricoides (giant intestinal roundworm)
Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm)
Ancyclostoma duodenale (Old world hookworm)
Necator americanus (New world hookworm)
Strongyloides stercoralis (threadworm)
Trichuris trichuria (whipworm)
Persistent cough?
Paragonimus westermani (Sketchy)
Ascaris lumbricoides (from his lecture – not in PP)
Appalachia?
S. stercoralis (threadworm)
Football shaped eggs?
Trichuris trichuria
Rectal prolapse?
Trichuris trichuria
Tissue nematodes?
Trichinella spiralis
Dracunculus medinensis
Wucheria bancrofti
Brugia malayi
Loa loa
Onchocerca volvulus