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Ciliates
Balantidium coli
B. Coli
Diarrheal Disease

Fecal-Oral route
Amoebas
Entamoeba histolytica

Acantamoeba

Naegleria fowleri
Entamoeba histolytica
MOST IMPORTANT AMOEBA

Luminal Dysentery most common

Invasive Dysentery = Bloody diarrhea

Invasive Intraintestinal = Other oragns
Acanthamoeba
Amoebic encephalitis

Conjunctiva Keratitis
Naegleria fowleri
Brain Infection - meningoencephalitis
Flaggelates
Trypanosoma brucei

Trypanosoma Cruzi

Leishmania

Giardia intestinalis

Trichomonis vaginalis

Giada went for a Cruz with Bruce who wore a Leash to get Vagina
Trypanosoma Brucei
African Sleeping Sickness

Tsetse Flies

Chancre-->Lymphadenopathy-->Meningoencephalitis

Waves of paristemia

Eflornithane kills 5% but cures 100%
Trypanosoma Cruzi
Chaga's Disease

Reduviid Bugs (Kissing bugs)

Chagomas-->Lymphadenopathy-->Chronic State-->Heart Enlargement/Failure
Leishmania
Leishmaniasis

Sand Flies

Cutaneous - Painless Ulcers

Mucocutaneous - Disfigures

Visceral - Deadly
Giardia intestinalis
20% of US Surface water infected

Watery, rotten egg diarrhea

Filter H2O
Trichomonas vaginalis
Trichomoniasis

MOST COMMON PROTOZOAN PARASITE

STD
Apicomplexans
Plasmodium

Toxoplasma gondii

Cryptosporidium parvum

Cyclospora cayetanesis
Plasmodium
Malaria

500 Million infected with 2-3 Million dead/year

Anopheles mosquitos

Asexual sporozite (liver), and merizoite (RBS)

Sexual sporogenic cycle in Anopheles
Resistance to malaria
Sickle Cell

Hemoglobin C

Glucose 6 Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency

Lack of Duffy antigens
Malaria
Fever, chills, headache

Recurring bouts for 1-5 years

Blackwater (Black urine) fever

Treat with chloroquinone
Toxoplasma gondii
Toxoplasmosis

Cats

Symptoms rarely develop except AIDS and Pregnant women.
Cryptosporidium parvum
Contaminated h2o

AIDS signature disease

Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Cyclosprora cayetanesis
Raspberries

Watery diarrhea
Systemic Mycoses
Aspergillosis

Candidiasis

Cryptococcosis

Pneumocystis jirovechi

Zygomycoses
Aspergillosis
Breathing in spores

Usually pulmonary disease or allergic response
3 Types of Aspergillosis
Hypersensitivity
Asthma and Allergy

Non-invasive
Hyphae grow in previously formed cavities (TB)

Acute invasive
Necrotic nodules, fever, dyspnea, can be fatal
Candidiasis
Thrush

Dimorphic

Person to person transmission

Marks the START OF AIDS
Mucocutaneous candidiasis
Thrush

Mouth plaques
Vulvovaginal candidiasis
Curd like discharge
Cutaneous
Diaper Rash
Denture Stomatitis
Candida infection

Dry, red tongue and palate
Perleche and Cheilitis
Lip candidiasis
Urinary Tract Candidiasis
Fungal UTI
Clinical signs of Candidiasis
Onychomycosis - Nail infection

Ocular

Systemic - In immune compromised

Esophageal - START OF AIDS
Cryptococcosis
Cryptococcous neoformans

Bird droppings

AIDS signature disease

Cryptococcous Meningitis - MOST COMMON DISEASE FORM
Pnuemocystic jirovechi
AIDS Signature disease

Used to be #1 COD in AIDS pts.

Fills lungs with hyphae
Zygomycoses
Rhizopus and Mucor

Only in severely immune compromised

Rhinocerebral
Pulmonary
GI
Cutaneous
3 New Fungal infections for AIDS pts.
Fusarium - Anti-fungal resistant

Penicillium morneffei

Trichosporan beigelli - Hair infection, resistant, death
Superficial Mycoses
Black piedra

White piedra

Malassezia furfur
Black and White peidra
Hair shaft fungi

Shared combs
M. Furfur
Grows on skin oil

Causes Tinia Versicolor due to melanin disruption
Cutaneous Mycoses - Dermatophytoses
MOST COMMON human fungal infection

Ringworm

Trichophyton
Microsporum
Epidermaphyton floccosum
Subcutaneous Mycoses
Chromoblastomycosis

Phaeohyphomycosis

Mycetomas

Sporotrichosis
Chromoblastomycosis
Soil work with BARE FEET
Phaeohyphomycosis
Immune compromised hosts

Open wounds or inhaled
Mycetomas
Tumorlike infections on feet or hands

Fungus spreads, forming multiple drainage sites
Sporotrichosis
Sporothris schenckii

ROSE GARDENERS disease
Fungal Intoxication
Mycotoxicosis - Eating contaminated food

Mycetismus - Eating poisonous mushrooms.
Mycotoxicosis
Aflatoxins - Peanuts

Ergot - Rye, LSD precursor
Mycetismus
Death Cap Mushrooms are the most deadly