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Flagellated trophozoites do not invade mucosa of small intestine but feed on mucous by succking disks
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Giardiasis
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Barrier to fat absorption, protein malabsorption
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Giardiasis
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Treatment for Giardiasis
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Metronidazole
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flagellated trophozoites transmitted by sexual contact
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Trichomoniasis
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cyst stage not present but tissue damage caused by proliferation of colonies of flagellated trophozoites
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Trichomoniasis
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Diagnosis: pyriform flagellated motile trophozoites
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Trichomoniasis
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Treatment for Trichomoniasis
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Metronidazole
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Nosemia and Vittaforma cause ocular infections
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Microsporidiosis/ Fumagillin
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Enterocytozoon cause GI infections
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Microsporidiosis/Albendazole
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Species have non-human mammals, fish, birds and insects as reservoirs and definitive hosts
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Microsporidiosis
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humans become infected by ingestion or inhalation of spores and by transplacental infection
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Microsporidiosis
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spores inject their cytoplasm in small intestine using a coiled polar tube
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Microsporidiosis
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Intestinal villi are infected resulting in atrophy and fusion of cells with infiltration of lamina propria
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Microsporidiosis
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Conjunctivitis is one of the possible symptoms of this spore transmitted parasite
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Microsporidiosis
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Transmitted by direct contact with infected tissue, blood transfusions and congenitally from mother to child
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Leishmaniasis
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found in nocturnal biting female sandflies
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Leishmaniasis
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Life cycle: amastigotes develop into promastigotes which enter MACROPHAGES and develop into intracellular amastigotes (detected by Giemsa)
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Leishmaniasis
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Infection with this Leishmania results in formation of papules nodules ulcers and scars on skin
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Leishmania tropica
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Infection with this Leishmania results in ulcers on skin but also effects mucuous membranes
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Leishmania braziliensis and mexicana
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Diagnosis: intracellular amastigoes on Giemsa stain
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Leishmaniasis/Antimony sodium gluconate
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transmitted by tick bites
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Babesiosis
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transovarial transmission in ticks
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Babesiosis
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sporozoites injected into human host and then merozoites form INTRAcellularly in erythrocytes
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Babesiosis
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hemolytic anemia is caused by this parasite
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Babesiosis
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this species of babesia can be fatal in splenectomized patients
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Babesia microti
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this species of babesia is self limiting
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Babesiosis microti
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pear shaped merozoites for diagnosis
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Babesiosis
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maltese cross sign in giemsa stain
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Babesiosis
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treatment for babesiosis
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clindamycin plus quinine
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transmission of giardiasis
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cyst contaminated food or water, oral intercourse
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life cycle of giardiasis
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cysts survive stomach and develop into flagellatedd trophozoites in SI, do not invade mucosa, attach via sucking disks
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treatment for giardiasis
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metronidazole
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transmission of trichomoniasis
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flagellated trophozoites by sexual contact or contaminated fomites, NO CYST STAGE
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treatment for trichomoniasis
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metronidazole
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transmission of leishmaniasis
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direct contact with infected tissue, blood transfusions congenitally
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life cycle of leishmaniasis
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1) amastigoes into promastigoes in sandflies,
2) promastigotes enter macrophages 3) promastigoes into macrophages (like toxiplasma gondii) 4) develop into intracellular amastigotes |
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treatment for leishmaniasis
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antimony sodium gluconate
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northeastern US/tickbites
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epidemiology of babesiosis
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life cycle of babesiosis
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sporozoites injected into new human host and develop into merozoites which live intracellularly
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treatment babesiosis
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clindamycin plus quinine
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causes of malaria
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plasmodium falciparum plasmodium vivax
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nocturnally feeding female mosquitoes transmit this
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malaria
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life cycle malaria
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1) sporozoites invade liver forming schizonts,
2) merozoites released invade erythrocytes and are released infecting new erythrocytes 3) gametocytes develop at same time, mosquitoes pick them up during blood meal, sexual reproduction occurs in mosquito lumen 4) sporozoites develop and migrate to salivary gland and transmitted to new humanhost. |
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blackwater fever
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renal failure associated with malaria
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treatment of malaria
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chloroquine with plasmodium vivax, primaquine for plasmodium falciparum, doxycycline for prophylaxis
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cause of American trypanosomiasis (chagas disease)
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Trypanosoma cruzi
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transmissoin of American trypanosomiasis
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reduviid bug feces, mother to fetus, blood transfusions
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life cycle of american trypanosomiasis
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trypomastigoes develop into amastigoes intracellularly in the RES of humans and disseminate as trypomastigoes in the CNS,
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myopathy, neural destruction and pathological changes in the heart from delayed hypersensitivity
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american trypanosomiasis
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romano's sign (swollen eye)
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American trypanosomiasis
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nodular lesions
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chagomas aka chagas disease aka american trypanosomiasis
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treatment for chagas disease
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nifurtimox
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xenodiagnosis
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american trypanosomiasis
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This cause of Malaria also causes relapse
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Plasmodium Vivax
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Duffy A and B cells when absent allow?
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resistance to Malaria caused by Plasmodium Vivax
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