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Trypanosoma cruzi:
a. Spreaded by what vector? b. Infects? c. Pathogenesis |
a. reduvid beetle.
b. muscle and blood c. Chagas' disease - has both acute and chronic dz. |
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Trypanosoma cruzi- Acute
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High fever, malaise, and chills. Drugs are effective at this stage (nufurtimox).
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Trypanosoma cruzi - Chronic
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Progressive DESTRUCTION of smooth muscle leading to megacolon, heart disease.
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Trypanosoma brucei:
a. Vector? b. Pathogenesis? c. Treatment? |
a. Tse Tse fly
b. Causes dz in the blood or in the CSF. (CFS leads to LETHARGY, STUPOR, and "SLEEPING SICKNESS") C. Blood infection: Suramin and Pentamidine. - CSF infection: Melarsopol |
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Leishmania:
a. Vector? b. Pathogenesis? c. Diagnosis? |
a. The Sand fly
b. Two forms of dz: - Visceral -Cutaneous c. Found in TISSUES and BONE MARROW, infecting MACROPHAGES. |
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Apicomplexans?
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1. Plasmodium
2. Babesia. 3. Toxoplasma |
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Plasmodium spp:
a. Vector? b. Pathogenesis? c. Pathogenesis? |
a. Anopheles mosquitos
b. Infect liver c. Found in blood |
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Babesia:
a. Vector? b. Pathogenesis? c. Most popular in? d. Co-present? |
a. Ticks
- Can be spreaded by Transfusion b. Causes SYSTEMIC disease which can be mild or severe in young/ old immunocompromised. c. US, New england, Midwest. d. LYME dz. |
