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Where do you get protozoan infections?
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In underdeveloped tropical areas
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Are protozoans eukaryotic or prokarytoic?
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Eu
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What causes amebiasis
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entamoeba histolytica
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What is the tx for mixed amebicide?
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metronidazole (flagyl)
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what is also a tx for giardia and trich and pseudo colitis by c. diff
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mixed amebicide
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what are the negative side effects of metronidazole?
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disulfiram effect if taken with alcohol
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tx for luminal amebicide?
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iodiguinol
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____ is for tx of parasite in lumen of bowel --> for tx of asymptomatic colonization state
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iodiguinol
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this is the tx for systemic ambecidies
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chloroquine (aralen)
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What is the tx fo liver abscesses of intestinal wall infections caused by amebas or malaria?
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systemic ambecidies such as chloroquine (aralen)
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what is the most commonly diagnosed interstital parasite in US (caused by contaminated drinking water)
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Giardia lambia
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what is the tx for Giardia?
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metronidazole
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From raw/infected meat you can get this?
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toxoplasmosis
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when cats shed ooyctes and infect other animals you can get this?
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toxoplasmosis
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what protects against folate deficiency?
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leucovorin
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Tx against toxoplasmosis?
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antifolate drug, pyrimethamine
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what is malaria caused by?
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plasmodium falciparum
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what are the sxs of malaria?
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increased fever
orthostatic hypotension massive erythrocytosis swollen/reddish limbs |
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Primaquine is used for what?
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tx malaria - primary exoerythrocytic types of is - used with blood schistocte (ie: chloroquine)
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Primaquine isn't effective against ____ stage of malaria
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erythrocyte
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what are these drugs for? (chloroquine, mefloquine, quinine)
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they are blood schizotnticides to tx malaria
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this blood schizonticidesis for multidrug resistant P. falciparum
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Mefloquine
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this blood schizonticides is to tx severe infestations of malaria that is resistant to other agents such as chloroquine
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quinine
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What should you prescribe is someone is resistnat to chloroquine and needs tx for malaria?
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give quinine, pyzimethamine, sulfonamide
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