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Amoeba
Mild Watery Diarrhea --> Dysentery
Liver Abscess
Tx: Metronidazole (Systemic) |
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Mature Amoeba Only
Fresh water lakes
Fatal |
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| Keratoconjuctivitis in Contact Lens Wearers |
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| Granulomatous skin lesions in compromised patients |
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Trichomonas
Vaginitis
Dx: Pear shaped organisms on WET MOUNT |
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Diplomonad
Campers/hikers
Foul smelling, fatty stools
Tx: Metronidazole |
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Sporozoan
Watery diarrhea, presents 1-2 weeks after infection
Dx: Acid-Fast Oocyst |
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Sporozoan
Watery Diarrhea
Dx: Eosinophilia
Tx: Bactrim |
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Sporozoan
Watery Diarrhea
Outbreak in raspberries/basil
Tx: Bactrim |
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Sporozoan
Encephalitozoon: Chronic diarrhea AND extraintestinal disease
Enterocytozoon: Chronic diarrhea and wasting
Dx: TRICHROME
Tx: None approved |
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Sporozoan
Spread by cats and uncooked meat (oocyst)
Trnsplacental migration --> Chorioretinitis, hydrocephalus, intracranial calcification in neonates
Dx: Serology, Ring enhancing lesions
Tx: Pyrimethamine, sulfdiazine |
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Sporozoan
Plasmodium Vivax, Ovale, Malirae, Falciparum
See your own notes |
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Kinetoplast
Transmitted: Sandfly
Concern: Leshmania Donovani - Visceral leshmania (fever, hepatospenomegaly, often fatal); India
Tx: Pentavalent antimonials |
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Transmitted by ixodes tick (same as lyme)
Similar to malaria |
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Kinetoplastid
Transmission - Reduviid bugs
Presents like syphilis
Cardiomyopathy, megacolon, megaesophagus |
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Kinetoplast
Gambiensi - Western
Rodesiensis - Eastern
Transmission - Tsetse fly
Clinical - Recurring fever (VSG - Variable surface glycoproteins that change)
Tx: Melarsoprol (enters CNS); Suramin (hematolyphatic only) |
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