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Week 5: Parasitology Part I Flashcards

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learning objectives

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For the parasitic organisms identify

  • the geographic region of risk
  • mode of transmission
  • Life cycle
  • Clinical symptoms
  • Clinical complications of infection
  • Laboratory diagnostic tests
  • Appropriate treatment
  • side effects of treatment
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Case 1

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Describe the distribution of Malaria

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Question

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Malaria is transmitted by the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito

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Describe the mechanism of transmission of Malaria

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  • Malaria is transmitted by the bite of the female Anopheles Mosquito
  • Sporozoites in the mosquito’s saliva are injected into the human bloodstream
  • Vector-borne infection
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Question

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Merozoites

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Describe the life-cycle of Malaria

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Malaria is caused by?

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Plasmodium species

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Plasmodium characteristics

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  • Obligate intracellular protozoa
  • Single-celled Eukaryotic
  • The zygote is the only diploid stage in Plasmodium life-cycle
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Tropism of Plasmodium

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Blood protozoa with hepatic stage

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Diploid stages of Plasmodium

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The zygote is the only diploid stage in life-cycle

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Definitive host of Plasmodium

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Mosquito (sexual reproduction in the gut of the mosquito)

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Intermediate host of Plasmodium

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Human

(Asexual reproduction in liver and blood stages)

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Plasmodium type and location of reproduction in definitive host

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Mosquito (Sexual reproduction in the gut of the mosquito)

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Plasmodium type and location of reproduction in intermediate host

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Human (Asexual reproduction in liver and blood stages)

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Factors associated with the pathogenicity of Plasmodium

4 listed

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  • Penetration of anatomic barrier via mosquito bite
  • Avoidance of immune detection
    • Antigenic variation, molecular mimicry, intracellular location, suppression of parasite-specific B & T-cell responses
  • Replication in the host
  • Endotoxin in P. falciparum
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How do Plasmodium avoid immune detection

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  • Antigenic variation
  • molecular mimicry
  • Intracellular location
  • suppression of parasite-specific B & T-cell responses
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Question

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D. Thick & thin peripheral blood smear

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Thick and thin peripheral blood smear

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Clinical symptoms of Malaria are caused by?

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blood-stage parasites and the host immune response

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Pathophysiology of Malaria infection

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  • RBC destruction
    • Intravascular hemolysis -> severe microcytic, hypochromic anemia
  • Cytokine release
    • Schizont rupture -> macrophage stimulated to release TNF and IL-1 cytokines
  • Sequestration of infected RBCs
    • Adhere to capillary endothelial cells -> impair blood flow
    • Splenomegaly
  • Biochemical & electrolyte changes
    • Hypoglycemia due to parasite glucose consumption, decreased hepatic gluconeogenesis, quinine causing pancreatic insulin release
    • Metabolic acidosis from microvascular ischemia, parasite lactate production
    • Hyponatremia
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Pathophysiology of Malaria as a result of RBC destruction

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Intravascular hemolysis -> severe microcytic hypochromic anemia

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Pathophysiology of Malaria as a result of cytokine release

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Schizont rupture -> macrophage stimulated to release TNF and IL-1 (cytokines)

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Pathophysiology of Malaria as a result of sequestration of infected RBCs

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  • adhere to capillary endothelial cells -> impair blood flow
  • Splenomegaly
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Pathophysiology of Malaria as a result of biochemical & electrolyte changes

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  • Hypoglycemia due to parasite glucose consumption, decreased hepatic gluconeogenesis, quinine causing pancreatic insulin release
  • Metabolic acidosis from microvascular ischemia, parasite lactate production
  • Hyponatremia (SIADH)
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What is SIADH

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Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) is a condition in which the body makes too much antidiuretic hormone (ADH). … ADH is a substance produced naturally in an area of the brain called the hypothalamus. It is then released by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain.

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Clinical findings & complications of Malaria

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  • General
    • Periodic every 48 to 72 hours (q48 or g72 hr) paroxysmal fever, chills and rigors caused by immune reaction from lysis of RBCs
    • Muscle aches, malaise, nausea, vomiting
  • Cerebral Malaria
    • Symptoms: impaired consciousness, delirium, seizures
    • Capillary plugging due to accumulation of malarial pigment and P. falciparum schizont sequestration
    • Mortality 15-25%
  • Blackwater fever
    • Intravascular hemolysis with rapid destruction of RBC infected with P. falciparum causing hemoglobinuria and acute renal failure
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List of Plasmodium species

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  • P. falciparum
  • P. malariae
  • P. ovale
  • P. vivax
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P. falciparum region

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Global

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P. falciparum incubation period

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short 7-10 days

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P. falciparum RBC infected

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All

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P. falciparum latent liver phase

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No

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P. falciparum Fever

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Malignant tertian

*Most severe presentation*

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P. malariae region

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  • Africa
  • Haiti
  • DR
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P. malariae incubation period

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Long 18-40 days

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P. malariae RBC infected

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old

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P. malariae latent liver phase

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No

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P. malariae fever

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Quartan

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P. ovale region

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  • Africa
  • Asia
  • SA
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P. ovale incubation period

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10-17 days

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P. ovale RBC infected

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Young

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P. ovale latent liver phase

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Yes

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P. ovale fever

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Benign tertian

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P. vivax region

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Global; NOT Africa

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P. vivax incubation period

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10-17 days

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P. vivax RBC infected

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  • Young
  • Duffy Ag
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P. vivax latent liver phase

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Yes

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P. vivax fever

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Benign tertian

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Question

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E. All of the above

because they all cause chronic low-grade anemia so there are less cells for the plasmodium to infect and reproduce in

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Treatment of Malaria

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  • Blood schizonticide
  • Tissue schizonticide
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Blood schizonticides kill Plasmodium in what stage?

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Trophozoite in RBC

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Tissue schizonticide kill Plasmodium in what stage

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Dormant hypnozoites in the liver (prevents relapse of OVALE and VIVAX)

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Blood schizonticides

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  • Chloroquine
  • Quinine
  • Mefloquine
  • Artemesins
  • Atovaquone-proguanil
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Tissue schizonticides

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  • Primaquine
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Quinine indications

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Treatment for severe malaria

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Quinine MOA

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  • facilitates the aggregation of cytotoxic heme. Free cytotoxic heme accumulates in the parasites, causing their deaths.
  • (toxic heme buildup and cell lysis)
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Quinine side-effects

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  • arrhythmia
  • Hemolysis in G6PD deficiency
  • Cinchonism
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Chloroquine indications

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Many areas with resistant P. falcuparum and P. vivax

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Chloroquine MOA

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Blocks detox of heme buildup from parasite blood meal -> disrupts parasite membrane function -> lysis of parasite

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Chloroquine side effects

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  • GI toxicity
  • itching
  • retinal toxicity
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Examples of Artemesinin group antimalarials

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Artesunate

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Artemesinin group indications

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  • first-line treatment for P. falciparum in combination with another blood schizonticide
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Artemesinin group MOA

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Inhibits P. falciparum EXP1 membrane glutathione S-transferase

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Artemesinin group side effects

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no significant side effects

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Mefloquine indications

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Second-line for P. falciparum and P. vivax

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Mefloquine MOA

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inhibition of heme polymerase

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Mefloquine side effects

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neuropsych

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Atovaquone-Proguanil MOA

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Inhibits parasitic electron transport chain

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Atovaquone-Proguanil Side effects

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GI toxicity

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Blood schizonticides overview

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Question

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American trypanosomiasis

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American trypanosomiasis AKA

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Chagas Disease

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How is Chagas Disease transmitted?

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Bite from reduviid bug (Triatomines) which transmits typomastigote

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Chagas Disease Region

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Endemic in Mexico, Central America and South America

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What is Trypanosoma cruzi?

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Flagellated protozoa

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Describe the life-cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi

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  • Bugs bite humans and infect humans by defecating on humans and the wound is rubbed causing infection
  • In humans, trypomastigotes lose flagellum and undulating membrane and become smaller oval intracellular amastigotes which multiply via binary fission and transform into trypomastigotes and burst out of the cell into the blood
  • Triatomine bug takes a blood meal from infected human and epimastigotes use asexual reproduction and can infect another human via bite and defacation
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Trpanosoma cruzi vector

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Reduviid bug

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Describe Trypanosoma cruzi stage in reduviid bug

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metacytic trypomastigotes

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Describe thick and thin smear

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  • thin smear - see the red cells and see the organism in its phase that is inside RBCs
  • thick smear - to catch the gametocytes
  • Get 3 thick and thin smears because this test is 100% operator dependent
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Describe Trypanosoma cruzi stage in humans

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in humans

trypomatigotes in blood and Amastigotes in tissue

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Reduviid bug AKA

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Kissing bug

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Definitive host of Trypansoma cruzi

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wild-animal reservoir

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Signs & symptoms of Acute Chagas Disease

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  • Chagoma at the inoculation site
  • Fever, chills, malaise, myalgias, lymphadenopathy
  • Rarely: arrhythmia, meningoencephalitis
  • Romaña’s Sign
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Prognosis of Chagas disease

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Most recover & then remain in asymptomatic indeterminate phase w/ persistent low-level parasitemia unless immunosuppressed then chronic Chagas Disease

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Signs & symptoms of Chronic Chagas Disease

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  • 20-30% of people infected progress to chronic disease with significant manifestations
  • Destruction of nerve cells (Auerbach plexus)
  • Dilated cardiomyopathy
  • Megacolon
  • Megaesophagus
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Diagnosis of Acute Chagas Disease

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Peripheral blood smear, culture or xenodiagnosis

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Diagnosis of Chronic Chagas Disease

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  • Serology: antibody titer
  • Biopsy of infected organ
  • Peripheral blood-smear
  • Xenodiagnosis
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Acute Chagas disease treatment

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Drugs available are not FDA approved and need to be obtained with special permission from the CDC

(Benznidazole, Nifurtimox)

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Chronic Chagas Disease Treatment

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Drugs available are not FDA approved and need to be obtained with special permission from the CDC

(Benznidazole, Nifurtimox)

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When to treat Acute Chagas Disease?

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All acute and congenital cases should be treated

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When to treat Chronic Chagas Disease?

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  • Only immunosuppressed patients and children
  • Symptomatic treatment of GI and cardiac issues
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Question

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D. Tsetse fly

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Vector of African Sleeping Sickness

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Tsetse fly

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Reduviid bug bite pain level

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Tsetse fly bite pain level

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African Sleeping Sickness pathogen

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Trypanosoma brucei

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Describe the life-cycle of Trypanosoma brucei

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  • Tsetse flys take a blood meal from infected animal or human, trypomastigotes perform Asexual reproduction in Tsetse fly.
  • Tsetse fly bites human and trypomastigotes enters bloodstream and does asexual reproduction in body fluids (blood, lymph and spinal fluid) and are not intracellular
  • Tsetse fly bites infected human and trypomastigotes continue infection
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Infective stage of Trypanosoma brucei

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trypomastigotes injected into human by Tsetse fly

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Diagnostic stage of Trypanosoma brucei

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Trypomastigotes in human bloodstream

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Trypanosoma brucei causes

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African Sleeping Sickness

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Trypanosoma brucei type

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  • Flagellated blood protozoa
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Trypanosoma brucei vector

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Tsetse fly

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Trypanosoma brucei reservoirs

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Humans and game

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African Sleeping sickness diagnosis

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Trypanosoma brucei trypomastigote in blood smear

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Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense region

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East Africa

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Trypanosoma brucei gambiense region

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West Africa

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Signs & symptoms of African Sleeping sickness

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Days to weeks after infection

  • Recurring fever (due to antigenic variation), headache and joint pain

Several months after infection

  • Parasitemia -> fever, diffuse lymphadenopathy, confusion, numbness and trouble sleeping

Months to years later

  • Parasites invade the CNS causing symptoms: headache, somnolence, confusion and coma
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Question

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C. Leishmania braziliensis

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Describe Leishmania life-cycle

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  • Sandfly takes a blood meal from infected human or animal and ingests infected macrophages with amastigotes
  • amastigotes transform into promastigote stage in midgut of Sand fly and do asexual reproduction
  • Sandfly takes a blood meal from human and promastigotes get phagocytosed by human macrophages
  • Promastigotes transform into amastigotes inside macrophages
  • Amastigotes multiply by binary fission invade other cells
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Leishmaniasis pathogen

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  • Leishmania donovani (old world/Eastern hemisphere)
  • Leishmania brasiliensis (New world/Western hemisphere)
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Leishmania donovani or brasiliensis type

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Flagellated blood protozoa

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Vector of Leishmania

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Phlebotomine sand flies

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Leishmania reservoir

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  • Rodents
  • dogs
  • infected humans
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Leishmania donvani causes

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Visceral Leishmaniasis

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Leishmania brasiliensis causes

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Mucosal Leishmaniasis

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Signs & Symptoms of Mucosal Leishmaniasis

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Cutaneous Leishmaniasis with dissemination to naso-oropharyngeal mucosa (nose, mouth, nasal septum)

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Signs & Symptoms of Visceral Leishmaniasis

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  • Fever
  • HSM
  • Pancytopenia
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Visceral Leishmaniasis AKA

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Photos of Leishmaniasis

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Diagnosis of Cutaneous Leishmania

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Skin biopsy for histology > culture or PCR

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Diagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis

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Bone marrow or spleen aspirate for:

  • Smear: macrophages with intracellular amastigotes
  • Culture (rarely used)
  • PCR
  • Serology
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Ampho

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  • Amphotericin B
  • Miltefosine
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Treatment of Visceral Leishmaniasis

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  • Amphotericin B
  • Miltefosine
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Question

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D. Toxoplasma gondii

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What is Toxoplasma gondii?

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Tissue protozoa

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Describe the life-cycle of Toxoplasma gondii

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  • Organisms develop in the intestinal cells of cat & during extraintestinal cycle with passage to the tissue via the blood stream
  • Organisms from intestinal cycle are passed in cat feces and mature into infective cysts within 3-4 days in the environment
  • Oocysts (containing sporozoites) are ingested by humans (meat, cat feces) and produce acute and chronic infection
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Question

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Plasmodium species clinical disease

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Plasmodium species vector

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Female anopheles mosquito

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Plasmodium species diagnosis of acute disease

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  • peripheral thick and thin smear (in febrile phase or will miss because RBCs are not rupturing when afebrile)
  • Trophozoite in RBCs
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Trypanosoma cruzi clinical disease

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Chagas Disease

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Trypanosoma cruzi vector

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Reduviid bug

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Trypanosoma cruzi diagnosis of acute disease

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  • Peripheral smear
  • trypomastigote
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Trypanosoma brucei clinical disease

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African Sleeping Sickness

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Trypanosoma brucei vector

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Tsetse fly

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Trypanosoma brucei diagnosis of acute disease

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  • Peripheral smear
  • Trypomastigote
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Leishmania donovani clinical disease

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Visceral leishmaniasis (Kala-Azar)

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Leishmania donovani vector

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Leishmania donovani diagnosis of acute disease

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  • Peripheral smear
  • Amastigotes in macrophages
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Leishmania brasiliensis clinical disease

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Mucosal leishmaniasis

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Leishmania brasiliensis vector

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Leishmania brasiliensis diagnosis for acute disease

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  • Biopsy for histology
  • Amastigotes
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Toxoplasma gondii clinical disease

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Toxoplasmosis;

Acute: mono

Reactivation: CNS

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Toxoplasma gondii vector

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  • none
  • Oral-fecal contamination
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Toxoplasma gondii Diagnosis of acute disease

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