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18 Cards in this Set
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What is sent out as soon as possible to all required addressees with any suspected or confirmed malaria case?
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Disease Alert Report, (DAR) MED 6220-3
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Individuals who were treated for malaria in the past must wait how many years from the date treatment was finished until they are eligible to donate blood?
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3 years
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Individuals who were in malaria-risk areas and were required to take chemoprophylaxis because of risk of exposure must wait _____ from the time chemoprophylaxis was finished to donate blood.
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3 years
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Individuals who visited a malaria-risk area and remained asymptomatic, but were not required to take chemoprophylaxis must wait how long before they are eligible to donate blood?
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6 months
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Some insecticide resistance has been demonstrated in the __________ mosquito vector.
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Anopheles
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What can be used in treatment of severe cases of malaria where the patient is exhibiting signs of CNS involvement, has very high and life-threatening parasitemia, or cannot take oral drugs
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Chloroquine hydrochloride, quinidine gluconate, and quinine dihydrochloride
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On an individual basis, what is the most important means for an individual to prevent becoming infected with malaria?
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Personal Protective Measures
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Traditionally, malaria chemoprophylaxis has been effectively accomplished with the use of ___________ and ___________.
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Chloroquine and Primaquine
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Parenteral antimalarial drugs such as chloroquine hydrochloride, quinidine gluconate, and quinine dihydrochloride can be used in the treatment of ________?
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Severe cases of malaria where patient is exhibiting signs of CNS involvement, life-threatening parasitemia, or cannot take oral drugs.
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Any person who is G-6-PD deficient has a risk of hemolysis associated with taking __________ for chemoprophylaxis/treatment.
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Primaquine
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The Wilson-Edeson test has an approximately _____ false negative rate.
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15%
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Malaria, in particular _______________ malaria, can progress into a rapidly fatal course.
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Plasmodium falciparum
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What should a malaria DAR include?
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Patient's itinerary during previous 3 months and types and duration of any chemoprophylaxis/treatment medications taken
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TRUE/FALSE
Quinine type drugs are rapidly schizonticidal (for all 4 Plasmodium species) and therefore rapidly reduce the level of parasitemia. |
TRUE
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This test is a screening test for the presence of chloroquine in the urine.
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Wilson-Edeson Test
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Patients showing signs of CNS involvement, life-threatening parasitemia are most commonly infected with _____________, which may or may not be ____________ - resistant.
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Plasmodium Falciparum,
Chloroquine |
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TRUE/FALSE
A negative reading from a Wilson-Edeson test can be used to prove an individual member has not been taking chloroquine. |
FALSE
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TRUE/FALSE
Individuals placed on chemoprophylaxis initially but did not visit into a malaria-risk area have no required waiting period to donate blood. |
TRUE
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