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Term
Ancylostoma duodenale
Necator americanus
Definition
1. Hookworms
2. migrate through lungs
3. Iron defiency anemia
4. Ground itch
5. skin penetration
Term
Strongyloides stercoralis
Definition
1. Hookworm like
2. Migrates through lungs
3. Can Autoinfect
4. ground itch
5. Immunocomprimised/steroids can cause dissemination and serious disease
6. can carry bacteria into brain
7. Skin penetration
Term
Wuchereria bancrofti
Definition
1. Blood tissue nematode
2. Mesquito vector
3. Elaphantisis
Term
Dracunculus medinensis
Definition
1. Copepod (waterflea) is intermediate
2. Drinking water with copepod
3. Painful burning blister
4. Foot in water, worm comes out
Term
Taenia saginata & Taenia solium
Definition
1. Cestodes (tapeworms) huge 20+ ft
2. Human is definitive host
3. saginata beef tape worm (harmless)
4. solium pig tape worm (more dangerous) cyst in brain
Term
Diphyllobothrium latum
Definition
1. Tape worm (cestode)
2. Raw fish
3. Vit B12 defiency macrocytic anemia
Term
Echinococcus granulosus
Definition
1. Dog(definitive) and sheep(intermediate) are hosts
2. Liver or lung cysts that can rupture and cause pneumonia/anaphylaxis
Term
Schistosomas
Definition
1. haematobium(bladder, terminal spike, hematuria),
japonicum(small intestine),
mansoni(lateral spike, ascites)
2. Need male and female
3. Goes to snail, swims out of snail and infects humans
4. Can cause cirrhosis of liver(long term)
Term
Clonorchis sinensis
Definition
1. fluke from eating fresh water fish
2. egg to snail to fish to human
3. Can plug bile duct
4. East Asia
5. Choalgiocarcinoma
Term
Paragonimus westermani
Definition
1. mimics TB
2. Snail to crustacean to human
3. East Asia
4. Rusty Sputum
5. Undercooked crab/crayfish
Term
Entameoba histolytica
Definition
Key Words: Flask shaped ulcer, Liver abscess(anchove paste), fecal-oral, trophozoite(active feeding form) and cyst form(two medicines, one for each form)
1. Blood in diarrhea
2. cysts are round, 4 nuclei w central karyosome
3. Trophozoite- single nuleus, small central karyosome, large psuedopods
Term
Giardia Lamblia
Definition
Key words: falling leaf motility, diarrhea, small bowel, villous atrophy, malabsorption, cyst, trophozoite
Term
Trichamonas vaginalis
Definition
Key words: STD, strawberry cervix(cervicitis), twiching motility, often asymptomatic
Term
Trypanosoma brucei
Definition
Key words:
1. Tsetse fly
2. sleeping sickness
3. winterbottom's sign(swollen lymph nodes)
4. terminal kinetoplast
Gambiense: W. Africa, slower
Rhodesiense: E. Africa, fast
Term
Trypanosoma cruzi
Definition
Key words:
1. Central and South America
2. Reduviid bug
3. Megacolon, megaesophagus
4. Cardiomegaly, arrythmia, CHF
5. Romana's sign(eye swollen shut)
6. C shaped trypanosome and small rounded amastigote that can nest in heart muscle
Term
Leishmania braziliensis
Definition
1. Sand fly
2. Ulcer
3. Amastigotes in macrophages
4. Hematogenous spread
5. Central and S. America
6. Disfiguring scars
Term
Leishmania Donovani
Definition
1. Asia, S. America
2. Sand Fly
3. Hematogenous spread
4. Hepatosplenomegaly
5. Skin Striae
6. Amastigotes in macrophages
Term
Leishmania tropica and mexicana
Definition
1. Tropicana in mid and E. Asia
2. Mexicana in Central and S. America
3. Disfiguring scars
4. Ulcers
5. Sand Fly
6. Amastigotes in macrophages
Term
Cryptosporidium parvum
Definition
1. sporozoa
2. fecal-oral
3. thin mans disease
4. acid-fast bright red cysts
5. Immunocomprimised-profuse watery life-threatening diarrhea
Term
Plasmodiums
Definition
Key words
1. Anopheles mesquito
2. Ring form
3. sporozoites
4. trophozoites
5. gametocytes
Ovale and Vivax:
1. Hypnozoites(latent liver phase)
2. 48 fever
3. Relapse after several months
4. Schuffners dots
Malariae
1. Nephrotic syndrome
2. splenomegaly
3. Fever 72 hrs
4. Band trophozoites
Falciparum
1. Cerebral Malaria
2. banana shaped gametocyte
Term
Toxoplasma Gondii
Definition
1. fecal-oral
2. pregnancy
3. hydrocephaly
4. HIV
5. Cats
6. Mono like illness
Term
Cestodes organisms and general features
Definition
1. Taenia saginata (beef)
2. Taenia solium (pork)
3. Diphyllobothrium latum (fish)
4. Echinococcus granulosus(dog/sheep)
All are tapeworms, hermaphrodites, proglottid
Term
Trematodes organisms and general features
Definition
1. Schistasomas (snails to swimmers)
2. Paragonimus Westermani(crab/crayfis)
3. Clonorchis Sinensis (raw fish)
Hermaphrodidic flat worms(except schistasomas) all go through snails.
Term
Intestinal Nematodes(roundworms) and general features
Definition
1. Enterobius Vermicularis(pinworm)
2. Ascaris Lumbricoides(Leofflers/GI obstruct)
3. Necator americanus(ground itch)
4. Ancylostoma duodenale(ground itch)
5. Strongyloides stercoralis(Autoinfect)
Term
Blood tissue Nematodes
Definition
1. Wuchereria bancrofti(elephantiasis)
2. Dracunculus medinensis(foot blister)
Term
Which Nematodes migrate through the lungs
Definition
Strongyloides, Hookworms(Necator, Ancylostoma), Ascaris
Term
How are the Leishmanias transmitted
Definition
Sand fly
Term
How are the Trypanosomas transmitted
Definition
brucei: Tsetse fly
cruzi: reduviid bug
Term
Name the Sporozoa, what links them.
Definition
Plasmodiums(vivax, ovale, malariae and falciparum), Cryptosporidium parvum, and Toxoplasma gondii.
Linked by having a sexual phase in their life cycle
Term
Name the Sporozoa, what links them.
Definition
Plasmodiums(vivax, ovale, malariae and falciparum), Cryptosporidium parvum, and Toxoplasma gondii.
Linked by having a sexual phase in their life cycle
Term
Name the Sporozoa, what links them.
Definition
Plasmodiums(vivax, ovale, malariae and falciparum), Cryptosporidium parvum, and Toxoplasma gondii.
Linked by having a sexual phase in their life cycle
Term
Name the Sporozoa, what links them.
Definition
Plasmodiums(vivax, ovale, malariae and falciparum), Cryptosporidium parvum, and Toxoplasma gondii.
Linked by having a sexual phase in their life cycle
Term
Can have long latent phases
Definition
P. vivax and ovale, T. Gondii, T. cruzi, P. caranii and more
Term
adult W. bancrofti lives where
Definition
Lymphatics
Term
Katayama fever
Definition
S. japonicum and mansoni, fever, rash swollen lymph nodes and spleen. Serum sickness like reaction 4-6 weeks after exposure, due to shared antigens from egg after female starts laying them
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