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Protozoan causing bloating, flatulence, foul-smelling fatty diarrhea often seen in campers and hikers.
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Giardia lamblia
(very common in the US) |
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Bloody diarrhea (dysentery), liver abscess, RUQ pain.
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Amebiasis. Entamoeba histolytica
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What causes severe diarrhea in AIDS patients?
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Cryptosporidium
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Cysts of what bug are found in meat or cat feces?
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Toxoplasma gondii (crosses placenta)
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Chorioretinitis
Hydrocephalus Intracranial calcifications |
Toxo
This is one of the TORCHes |
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What bug enters the brain through the cribiform plate causing rapid fatal meningoencephalitis.
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Naegleria fowleri
(can get from swimming in freshwater lakes) |
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What carries Trypanosoma cruzi?
How do you treat infections? |
Reduviid bug.
Nifurtimox |
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What can the sandfly transmit?
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Leischmania donovani
rx: Sodium stibogluconate |
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What do you treat Plasmodium with?
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Mefloquine
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What bug presents with RBCs appearing as "maltese crosses"?
How do you treat it? |
Babesia (from the same bug as Borrelia burgdorferi)
Quinine |
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Vaginitis: foul smelling greenish discharge, itching, burning.
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Trichomonas vaginalis infection
Treat with metronidazole |
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What is the most common helminthic infection in the U.S.?
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Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm)
Causes anal puritis Scotch tape test. |
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Patient finds a worm in her underwear and has visible eggs in her feces. What does she have?
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Ascaris lumbricoides
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What can you get from eating undercooked porked?
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Trichinella spiralis
Causes periorbital edema |
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This worm causes vomiting diarrhea, and anemia and you get it from the soil?
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Strongyloides
Treat with Ivermectin Ancylostoma causes the same but the larvae penetrate the skin of the feet. |
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What can Onchocerca volvulus cause?
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Hyperpigmented skin, river blindness.
Remember: Black flies, black skin nodules, black sight |
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What causes elephantiasis?
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Wuchereria bancrofti
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What do you treat Loa loa, Wuchereria bancrofti, and Toxocara canis with
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Diethylcarbamazine
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This worm causes cysticercosis?
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Taenia solium
Treat with Praziquantel |
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What does Diphyllobothrium latum cause and how do you get it?
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Vitamin B12 deficiency (anemia).
You get it by eating raw freshwater fish. |
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What is in dog feces and can cause cysts in the liver that can cause anaphylaxis?
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Echinococcus
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These trematodes have snails as their hosts and cause granulomas, fibrosis, and inflammation of the spleen and liver.
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Schistosoma
Chronic infection with Shis. haematobium can lead to SCC of the bladder. Treat with praziquantel |
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What causes inflammation of the biliary tract (lead to pigmented gall stones) and is associated with eating undercooked fish?
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Clonorchis sinensis
Associated with cholangiosarcoma. |
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Undercooked crabmeat
Causes inflammation and secondary bacterial infection of the lung, causing hemoptysis. |
Paragonimus
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