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Travel Related Infection Flashcards

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What are some climate or environment related health problems?

A 
Sunburn
Heat exhaustion
Fungal infections
Bacterial skin infections
Cold injury
Altitude sickness
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What are some water related infections?

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Schisotosomiasis
Leptospirosis
Liver flukes
Strongyloidiasis
Hookworms
Guinea worms
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What are some arthropod borne infections?

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Malaria
Dengue
Leishmaniasis
Trypanosomiasis
Filariasis
Onchocerciasis
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Name some emerging infectious disease?

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Zika
Ebola
MERS
Swine and avain flu
SARS
West nile virus
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What are the species of malaria?

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Plasmodium falciparum
vivax
ovale
malariae
knowlesi
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What are the malaria clinical features?

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Fever, rigors, aches, pain, headache, sore throat and cough

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What are the complications of malaria?

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Cerebral malaria
Blackwater fever
Pulmonary oedema
Jaundice
Severe anaemia
Algid malaria
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How do you diagnosis malaria?

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Thick and thin blood films
Quantitative buffy coat
Rapid antigen test

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What are the anti-malaria drugs?

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Quinine
Artmisinins
Oral doxy

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What is typhoid fever?

A

Salmonella typhi or paratyphi

Incubation 7d-4w 
1 = fever, headache, pain
2 = fever peaks, spots, tachy and neutropenia 
3 = coplications
4 = recovery
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What is used to diagnose typhoid?

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Clinical = not easy
Lab = culture of blood, urine, stool and bone marrow
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What is the treatment of typhoid?

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Oral azithromycin

IV ceftriaxone

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What is Dengue fever?

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Transmission by Aedes aegypti

Fever, headache, myalgia, macular rash and haemorrhagic signs

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What is used to diagnose dengue?

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Clinical = thrombocytopenia, leucopenia, positive tourniquet test

Lab = PCR and serology

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What is the management of dengue?

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No theraputic agents

IV fluids, FFP and platelets

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What is schistosomiasis?

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Freshwater snails
1h = itch
24h = cough, pain
Katayama fever 15-20 days = prostate, fever, lymphadenopathy, diarrhoea and eosinophillia 
Acute disease (6-8W
Chronic disease
17
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How do you diagnose and treat schistosomiasis?

A

Antibody test
Ova in stool and urine
Rectal snip

T = praziquantel and pred if severe

18
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What are the examination signs of returning traveller?

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Rash = thyphoid, typhus and dengue
Jaundice = hep, malaria and YF
Lymph nodes = leishmania and trypanosomiasis
Lover = malaria, thyphoid
Spleen = leishmaniasis, thyphoid and malaria

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