Tropical Medicine Flashcards
(12 cards)
Chagas Disease/ American trypanosomiasis
Swollen eyelid
Non-pitting oedema in legs
Machado-Guerreiro test positive
Trypanosomiasis cruzi
Malaria
Severe
Plasmodium falciparum
Lake swimming
Schistasoma haematobium: Frequency, dysuria, haematuria
Mansoni: rash
Schistosomiasis
Pear shaped trophozoite
Flatulence, cysts in stool
Giardia lambila
Small ulcer that heals»_space; persistent ulcer in mouth
Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
Sleeping sickness
Lethargic, not as alert, CNS abnormalities
Trypanosoma brucei Gambiense
Superficial lymph nodes - streaky red, tender
Microfilariae in peripheral blood
Wucheria bancrofti
Kal-azar
Splenomegaly
Later - bone marrow invasion (pancytopenia), disfiguring dermal disease
Visceral leishmaniasis
Dysentry
Liver abscess
Entamoeba histolytica
Periorital oedema, conjunctivitis
Encysted larvae
Undercooked pork
Trichinella spiralis
White cysts in stool, asymptomatic
Taenia siganata
Cats, slaughter house
Neonate: calcification in brain, hydrocephalus
Toxoplasma
