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12 Cards in this Set
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Least frequent of the malarias
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P. Ovale (Henry 1127)
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Number of HP fields required to r/o malaria infection
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100- thick smear
200- thin smear (Henry 1121) |
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Disease relapse from remote infection
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P. ovale and P. vivax (Henry 1128)
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RBC maturation stage infection (malaria)
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P. ovale and P. vivax- young
P. malariae- older P. falcip- all stages. (Henry 1129) |
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P vivax morphology
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- shuffners stippling
- Large cell - Ameboid trophozoites - 16-19 schizonts (Henry 1129) |
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P. malariae morphology
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- Nl sized cell
- band trophozoite - prominent hematin pigment - fewer schizonts |
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P falcip morphology
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- Usu only ring forms
- multiple small, eccentric ring trophozoites - high parasitemia - elongated gametocyte |
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RBC receptor for P vivax
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Duffy antigen
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Babesia morphology
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- multiple ring forms in one cell that may form a tetrad (maltese cross)
- no hematin pigment - no large trophozoites |
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T brucei
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- East: rhodesiense
- West: gambiense (classic) - African trypanosomiasis - Tsetse fly - chancre - kinetoplast |
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Chagas disease
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- T. cruzi
- kissing bugs- Reduviidae - bug feces rubbed into skin or mucous membrane. - myocarditis, megacolon - kinetoplast |
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Leshmania
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- sand fly
- mucocutaneous- L. braziliensis - visceral- L. donovani, L. infantum, L chagasi - kala azar: dark skin - kinetoplast, no cell wall |
