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21 Cards in this Set
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Which forms of malaria can remain dormant in the liver for several years?
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P. vivax and P. ovale.
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What form of malaria infects RBCs?
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Merozoites.
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What form of malaria is released from lysed RBCs?
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Merozoites
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What form of malaria is injected into the human by the bite of a mosquito?
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Sporozoite
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What is the most frequently drug resistant form of malaria?
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P. falciparum
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What is teh drug of choice for prophylaxis of P. falciparum in sensitive areas?
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Chloroquine
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What are the drugs of choice in areas where P. falciparum is resistant to chloroquine?
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Mefloquine or Doxycycline
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What are the drugs of choice for treatment of malaria?
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Chloroquine
Quinine Quinidine |
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What are the therapuetic drugs for malaria that is resistant to choloquine?
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Mefloquine
Quinine |
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What are the adverse effects of chloroquine?
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Retinal damage
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What is the only drug that treats the hepatic stage of malaria?
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Primaquine
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What stage of malaria do most of the antimalarial drugs treat?
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The erythrocytic stage.
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What is the major adverse side effect of primaquine?
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Causes hemolytic anemia in patients deficient in G6PD.
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Pyrimethamine
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Folic acid antagonist that is used to treat chloroquine-resistant P.falciparum
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Atovaquone/Proguanil
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Disrupts mitochondrial electric transport. Used as a part of malarone drug.
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What is the drug of choice for asymptomatic entamoeba hystolytica?
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Iodoquinol
Diloxanide Furoate |
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What are the drugs of choice for symptomatic entamoeba hystolytica?
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Metronidazole and Iodoquinol
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DOC for Trichomonas
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Metronidazole
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What is the DOC for P. jiroveci
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TMP-SMX
Pentamidine |
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DOC for Toxoplasmosis?
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Pyrimethamine
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DOC for Girardia lamblia?
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Metronidazole.
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