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73 Cards in this Set
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what vitamin do vegetarians require supplementation
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B12
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what groups should fluoroquinolones be avoided
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children
pregnant women |
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protozoa:
causes malaria |
plasmodium
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protozoa:
MC |
giardia
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protozoa:
causes chagas |
t cruzi
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protozoa:
amoebic dysentary |
e histolytica
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protozoa:
african sleeping sickness |
trypanosoma
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protozoa:
transmitted by sandfly |
leishmania
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protozoa:
causes vaginitis |
trichomonas
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px who visits mexico and develops bloody diarrhea
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e histolytica
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malarial life cycle:
resembles diamond ring |
trophozoite
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malarial life cycle:
ruptures the cell host |
merozoite
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malarial life cycle:
replicates intracellularly |
schizont
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malarial life cycle:
form injected by plasmodium |
sporozoite
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malarial life cycle:
banana shape |
gametocyte
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what is responsible for the recurrent fever of malaria
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repetitive rupturing of the RBC
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MC helminthic infection
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e vermicularis
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one third of the world in infected by this helminth
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a lumbricoides
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a/w swimmers itch
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schistosoma
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a/w snails
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schistosoma
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a/w bladder cancer
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schistosoma
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causes inflammation of the biliary tract
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c sinensis
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hookworm
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a duodenale
n americanus |
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giant round worm
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a lumbricoides
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eating undercooked crab meat
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p westernmani
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pork tapeworm
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T solium
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causes lymphatic filariasis
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w bancrofti
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new onset of seizures and brain calcification
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t solium
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helminth a/w hematuria
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schistosoma
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Rx for giardia
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metro
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Rx for entameaba
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metro
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Rx for trichomonas
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metro
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Rx for malaria
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chloroquine
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Rx for p vivax/ovale
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primaquine
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Rx for resistant malaria
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mefloquine
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Rx for flukes and tapeworms
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praziquantel
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Rx for worms
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bendazole
pyrantel pamoate |
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Rx for chagas
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nifurtimox
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Rx for leishmania
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stibogluconate
amphoteracin |
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Dx of e histolytica
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RBC found within entameaba
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Dx for cryptosporidium
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cysts on acid fast stain
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what is seen microscopically in toxoplasmosis
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necrosis with crescent shaped organisms
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Dx for N fowleri
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amoebas in spinal fluid
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Rx for e histolytica
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metro
iodoquinol |
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Rx for toxoplasmosis
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sulfadiazine
pyrimethamine |
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Rx for N fowleri
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amphoteracin
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what is chorioretinitis
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inflammation of the choroids and retina
leaves cotton white yellow scars |
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triad of toxoplasmosis
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chorioretinitis
hydrocephalus intracranial calcifications |
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what form of toxoplasmosis crosses the placenta
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tachyzoites
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symptoms of african sleeping sickness
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enlarges lymph nodes
fever somnolence coma |
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what transmits the trypanosoma
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tsetse
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how is t cruzi transmitted
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reduvvid bug
-bites and defecates, we scratch and it penetrates |
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symptoms of leishmania
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spiking fever
hepatosplenomegaly pancytopenia |
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what transmits leishmania
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sandfly
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Dx of leishmania
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macrophages containing amastigotes
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triad of malaria
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thrombocytopenia
atypical lymphocytes inc LDH |
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what can be resistant to malaria
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duffy antigen mutation
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strawberry colored cervix
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trichomonal vaginalis
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foul smelling greenish yellow discharge
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t vaginalis
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what transmits babesia
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ixodes tick
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Dx of babesia
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maltese cross
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Rx for babesia
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quinine
clindamycin |
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helminth that causes inflammation of muscles and periorbital edema
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t spiralis
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helminth a/w immigrant with new altered mental status
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t solium
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causes cyticercosis and neurocysticercosis
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t solium
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Rx for D latum
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praziquantel
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helminth that causes cysts in the liver
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e granulosis
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helminth with eggs found in dog feces
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e granulosus
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egyptian with hematuria
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schistosoma
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causes granulomas, fibrosis and inflammation of the spleen and liver
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schistosoma
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helminth that causes portal hypertension
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schistosoma
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hhelminth that causes inflammation of the biliary tract and gallstones
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c sinensis
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a/w cholangiocarcinoma
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c sinensis
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