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Worm diagnosed with scotch tape test
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Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm)
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How do you get Enterobius infection? What do you use to treat it?
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Food contaminated with eggs; intestinal infection causes anal puritis (often at night)
treatment: -Bendazoles or pyrantel pamoate |
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If someone sees worms in the feces what are they infected with? Treat with what?
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Ascaris lumbricoides (giant roundworm)!
Treatment: -Bendazoles or pyrantel pamoate |
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worm in undercooked meat usually pork causing inflammation of muscle what do you treat with?
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It is Trichnella spiralis (larvae encyst in muscle), periorbital edema
treatment: -bendazole |
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Larvae in soil, penetrate through skin what type of infection? What symptoms?
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Stronglyoides sterocoralis causes intestinal infection: vomiting, diarrhea, and anemia
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What do you treat Stronglyodies infection with?
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-Bendazoles or pyrantel pamoate
*worms are bendy so treat with Mebendazole |
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In drinking water, causes skin inflammation and ulceration
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Dracunculus medinensis
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Treatment for Dracunculus medinensis
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Niridazole
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Transmitted by female blackflies what does it cause and what is the organism?
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Onchocerca volvulus
causes hyperpigmented skin and river blindness (black flies, black skin nodules, and "black" sight") |
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What can Onchocerca volvulus have a reaction to? What do you treat it with?
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allergic reaction to microfilaria
treat with Ivermectin (rIVER blindness) |
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Transmitted by deer fly, horse fly, and mango fly; causes swelling in the skin... what can you see?
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worm crawling in the conjunctiva
Loa Loa |
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What do you treat Loa Loa with?
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Diethylcarbamazine
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Trasmitted by Female mosquito; causes blockage of lymphatic vessels (elemphatiasis) how long does it take for symptoms?
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Wuchereria bancrofti
takes 9 mo - 1 year after bite to get elephantiasis symptoms |
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What do you treat elephantiasis with
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Diethylcarbamazine
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What does toxocara canis cause? What is the treatment?
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From food contaminated with eggs; causes granulomas (if in retina causes blindness) and visceral larva migrans
Treatment: Diethylcarbamazine |
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Cause of neurocystericercosis?
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Taenia solium - injestion of larvae encysted in undercooked pork leads to intestinal tapeworm
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Taena solium what do you see? What do you treat with?
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Can see cysticercosis and neurocysticercosis, mass lesions in brain (swiss cheese appearance)
Treatment: praziquantel (use -bendazoles for neurocysticercosis) |
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What worm can cause B12 deficiency and anemia? How do you get it and what is the treatment?
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Diphyllobothrium latum
From larvae in raw freshwater fish Treatment: Praziquantel |
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Eggs in dog feces when injested can cause cysts in liver
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Echinococcus granulosus
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complication of echinococcus granulosus and treatment?
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can cause anaphylaxis if echinococcal antigens are released from cysts (surgeons inject ethanol before removal to neutralize antigens)
Treatment: -bendazoles |
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What are the nematodes (roundworms)?
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Enterobius vermicularis, Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichnella spiralis, Strongyloids stercoralis, Ancylostoma duodenale (hook worms), dracunculus medinenis, onchocerca volvulus, Loa loa, Wuchereria bancrofti, toxocara canis
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What are Cestodes (tapeworms)?
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Taenia solium, Diphyllobothrium latum, Echinococcus granulosus
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What are the Trematodes (flukes)?
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Schistosoma, Clonorchis sinensis, Paragonimus westermani
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What worm is a snail a host? What can it cause?
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Schistosoma; cercariae penetrate skin of humans; causes granulomas, fibrosis, and inflammation of the spleen and liver
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Chronic Shistosoma haematobium can lead to what?
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Squamous cell carcinoma of the bladder
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What do you use to treat Schistosoma
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Praziquantel
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What worm causes inflammation of biliary tract?
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Clonorchis sinensis - in undercooked fish
see pigmented gallstones |
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What is Clonorchis sinensis associated with?
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Cholangiocarcinoma
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What do you treat Clonorchis sinensis with?
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Praziquantel
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What worm is in undercooked crab meat? What can it cause?
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Paragonimus westermani causes inflammation and secondary bacterial infection of lung causing hemoptysis
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What do you treat Paragoniums westermani with?
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Praziquantel
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What nematodes are ingested?
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EAT
Enterobius, Ascaris, Trichinella |
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What nematodes infect cutaneously?
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"get from SANd"
Strongyloides, Ancylostoma, Necator |
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brain cysts, seizures
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Taenia soium (cystercosis)
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Liver cysts
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Echinococcus granulosus
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B12 deficiency
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Diphyllobothrium latum
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Biliary tract dz, cholangisarcoma
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Clonorchis sinensis
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Hemoptysis
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Paragonimus westermani
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Portal Hypertension
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Schistoma mansoni
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Hemituria, bladder cancer
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Schistosoma haemotobium
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Microcytic anemia
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Ancylostoma, Necator
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Perianal pruritus
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Enterobius
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Typhoid fever is caused by what?
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Salmonella typhi
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Typhus is caused by what
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Rickettsia prowazekii (epidemic), Rickettsia typhi (endemic), and Rickettsia tsutsugamushi (scrub typhus)
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Chlamydia trachomatis is what?
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Bacterial STD
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Treponema is what?
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Spirochete; causes syphilis (T. pallidum) or yaws (T. pertenue)
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Trichomonas vaginalis
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Protozoan, motile STD
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Trypanosoma
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Protozoan, causes Chagas' disease (T. cruzi) or African sleeping sickness
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Toxoplasma
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TORCH infection, a protozoan
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What is trichinella spiralis
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Nematode in undercooked meat
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Tapeworm larvae (intestinal infection) or eggs (neurocysticercosis) in pork
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Taenia solium
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