Term
| What decreases the severity/occurrence in malaria infection? |
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Definition
lack of Duffy blood group factor
have sickle cell trait and HbC
have G-6-PD deficiency |
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Term
| What is a secondary affect of hemolytic anemia with malaria? |
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Definition
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Term
| What are symptoms of malaria? |
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Definition
hepatosplenomegaly
headache
myalgia
nausea
delirium
fever
chills |
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Term
| what is blackwater fever? |
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Definition
plugging of tubules and acute tubular necrosis from massive hemolysis (Malaria) |
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Term
| Death in adults with malaria is associated with? |
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Definition
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Term
| What are the classical pathogenic features of malaria? |
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Definition
-hemolytic anemia and complications
-malarial pigment in spleen/liver
-capillary plugging in brain |
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Term
| Which strain of plasmodium will be more likely to be in the trophozoite form? |
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Definition
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Term
Which strain of plasmodium will be more likely to be in the gametocyte (banana) form?
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Definition
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Term
| What disease is acquired by ingestion of cyst stage or organism in raw or improperly cooked meat |
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Definition
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Term
What is the morphology of toxoplasmosis? |
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Definition
| macrophages, containing trophozoites of organisms, necrosis, vascular thromsis, calcification |
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Term
| How do you Dx toxoplasmosis? |
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Definition
-look at CSF, pleural, peritoneal fluid for organisms
-serology for Ab by SABIN FELDMAN dye test |
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Term
What does
T. rhodendiense
and T. gambiense cause? |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
fever
hyperplasia of RE system
inflammation of brain
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Term
| What is the American type of Trypanosomiasis? |
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Definition
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Term
| How is Chaga's disease transmitted? |
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Definition
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Term
Trypanosomiasis can result in what chronic manifestations?
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Definition
heart failure from inflammation and scarring/
nerve damage at esophagus and colon/
magaesophagus or megacolon |
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Term
| what is the name for a pinworm? |
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Definition
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Term
| What is the name for a roundworm? |
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Definition
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Term
| Can a round worm reach the lungs? |
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Definition
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Term
| what is a hookworm called? |
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Definition
Necator americus
or
Ancyclostoma duodenale |
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Term
| can a hookworm go to the lungs? |
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Definition
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Term
| what is the name for a tapeworm? |
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Definition
Taenia saginata
Taenia solium
Diphyllobothrium latum |
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Term
| Diphyllobothrium latum can cause megaloblastic anemia because? |
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Definition
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Term
| How can you get a liver fluke? |
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Definition
under cooked, salted, pickled, or smoked freshwater fish-Clonorchis sinensis
or watercress-Fasciola hepatica |
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Term
| What are the different bugs for Schistosomiasis? |
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Definition
S. japonicum
S. haematobium
S. mansoni |
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Term
lesions caused by
S. japonicum and
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Definition
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Term
lesions caused by
S. haematobium
are where?
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Definition
| urinary bladder--may get squamous cell carcinoma (usually transitional) |
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Term
| which bug only develops in striated muscle and can cause fever, muscle tenderness, swelling of eyelids, and eosinophilia? |
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Definition
Trichinosis
(trichinella spiralis) |
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Term
| What does Wuchereria bancrofti cause? |
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Definition
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Term
| What is the vector for Elephantiasis? |
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Definition
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