First Aid Stuff - All Micro

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Histo Hides: what does this mean?

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Histoplasma is taken up by macrophages and stays within them.

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Blasto Buds (Broadly): What does it mean?

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Blastomycosis: see broad-base budding (same size as WBC). Causes inflammatry lung disease, can disseminate to skin and bone.

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Paracoccidio Parasails with the captains wheel all the way to Latin America.

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Paracocidio has a "captains wheel" formation on budding yeast. Much larger than WBC. Found in rural latin america

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What does malassezia furfur cause?

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tinea versicolor

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What are the dermatophytes?

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End with -sporum and -phyton.

Microsporum, trichophyton, epidermophyton

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Acute Angles in Aspergillus

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Aspergillus is a mold with septate hyphae that branch at acute angles (<45 degrees)

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What disease does crytococcus neoformans cause?

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crytococcal meningitis. Heavily encapsulated yeast. Not dimorphic.

Found in soil and pigeon droppings

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Rose Gardener's disease

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Sporotrichosis (causative agent : sporothrix schenckii). typically introduced by a thorn. Causes local pustule or ulcer with nodules along draining lymphatics.

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Plant a rose in the pot

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POTassium iodide (or itraconazole) is tx for sporotrichosis

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Which plasmodium have dormant forms in liver?

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Vivax/ovale. This necessitates tx with primaquine

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borrelia burgdorferi is causative agent of what?

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Lyme disease

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borrelia burgdorferi may cause a coinfection with what?

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babesia (babesiosis)

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Symptoms of babesiosis

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Fever, hemolytic anemia. Predominantly in NE US.

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Treatment for onchocerca infection/river blindness

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ivermectin. IVERmectin for rIVER blindness

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Tx for neurocysticercosis

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-bendazoles

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Nematode routes of infection:
EAT

SAND

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EAT: get sick if you eat these. (Ingested). enterobius (pinworm), ascaris (roundworm), trichinella (trichonosis)

SANd: transmitted cutaneously. Strongyloides, Ancylostoma (hookworm), Necator (hookworm).

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Brain cysts, seizures: think what?

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Taenia solium (cysticercosis)

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Liver cysts: think what?

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Echinococcus granulosus (tapeworm); eggs in dog feces can cause cysts in liver.

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Biliary tract disease, cholangiocarcinoma: think what?

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Clonorchis sinensis (found in undercooked fish)

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Microcytic anemia: think what?

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Ancylostoma, Necator (hookworms)

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Perianal pruritus: think what?

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Pinworm (Enterobius)

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typhoid fever caused by

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bacterium Salmonella typhi

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typhus caused by

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bacteria Rickettsia

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Chlamydia TRACHomatis causes what?

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STD-causing bacteria

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Treponema causes what?

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syphilis : Treponema pallidum or yaws (T. pertenue).

It's a spirochete bacteria

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Trichomonas vaginalis: what kind of organism?

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protozoan, STD

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Trypanosoma: causes what? what kind of organism is it?

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Chagas disease. A protozoan

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Toxoplasma: causes what?

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Protozoan. a TORCH infection

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Trichinella spiralis: causes what? what kind of organism is it?

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Nematode in undercooked meat. Causes inflammation of muscle, periorbital edema

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Taenia solium: causes what?what kind of organism is it?

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cysticercosis. It's a tapeworm larvae

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Currant jelly sputum associated with what?

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klebsiella