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50 Cards in this Set
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2 puncture lesions
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Black Widow Spider
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Hourglass design on back
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Black Widow Spider
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Venom has potent neurotoxin
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Black Widow Spider
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Stinging & burning right away
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Black Widow Spider
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"Board-like" abdomen from spasms later on
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Black Widow Spider
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Tx for Black Widow Spider
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Anti-venom & Calcium gluconate
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Hx of doing gardening, cleaning out shed, cutting grass in wooded area
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Brown Recluse Spider
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Vesicle to blister to ULCERATION
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Brown Recluse Spider
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Necrotoxin - eats away at tissue
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Brown Recluse Spider
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Fiddle or violin on back
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Brown Recluse Spider
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Found in crevices of beds or furniture
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Bed Bugs
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Bites tend to occur in lines or clusters
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Bed Bugs
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Popular urticaria
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Bed Bugs & Fleas
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Dog or wood ticks
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
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Headache, chills, N/V, irritability
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
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Face flushed, red conjunctiva
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
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Rickettsia rickettsii
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
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Ixodes tick
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Lyme Disease
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Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria
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Lyme Disease
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Erythema migrans
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Lyme Disease
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Lymphadenopathy
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Lyme Disease
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Western blot
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Lyme Disease
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Serology - IgM & IgG antibodies
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Lyme Disease
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Anopheles mosquito
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Malaria
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Plasmodium protozoa
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Malaria
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Plasmodium that infect immature RBCs
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P. Vivax & P. ovale
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Plasmodium that infects more mature RBCS
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P. Malariae
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Plasmodium that causes most severe disease, crescent-shape, more near edges of RBCs
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P. Falciparum
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2 hosts = mosquito (sexual) & human/animal (asexual)
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Malaria
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Sporozoites in saliva
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Malaria
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Thick smear to look for little inclusions in RBCs
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Malaria
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Thin smear to determine species
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Malaria
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Paroxysmal fevers at regular pace
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Malaria
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Sand fly
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Leishmaniasis
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Red papule with intense itching to LARGE ULCER
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Leishmaniasis
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Disfiguring scar
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Leishmaniasis
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Kissing bug
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Chagas Disease
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Induration & swelling on FACE
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Chagas Disease
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Trypanosoma cruzi (flagellate)
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Chagas Disease
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Intense itching with scratch marks at the sites
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Pubic Lice/Nits
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Need close social contact
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Pubic Lice/Nits
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Tx for Pubic Lice/Nits
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Permethrin (shampoo)
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Blood sucking ectoparasite that feeds on dogs, cats, humans, etc,
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Fleas
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Tx for Fleas
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Insecticides
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Sarcoptes scabei
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Scabies
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Mite that gets under skin by burrowing and defecates there
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Scabies
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Itching worse at night
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Scabies
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Common areas = groin, wrist, umbilicus
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Scabies
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Tx for Scabies
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5% Permethrin Cream
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