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73 Cards in this Set
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Brain eating amoeba?
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Naegleria Fowleri
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What type of Amoeba are cysts and trophozites passed in feces?
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Entamoeba Histolytica
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What type of parasite can cause toxic megacolon, absess liver, brain and kidney?
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Entamoeb Histolytica
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What type of Ciliate is commonly asymptomatic or diarrhea and comes from pigs?
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Balantidium Coli
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What type of Sporozite is spread by cats sheddin oocytes?
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Toxoplasma Gondii
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What type of sporozite replicates in RBCs and is spread via mosquitos?
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Plasmodium Sp
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Plasmodium Sp is the cause of what dx?
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Malaria from mosquitos
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What type of sporozite replic. in RBCs and comes from ticks in the NE?
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Babesia
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What is a concer of Babesia?
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hemolytic anemia and renal failure
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How is Leishmainia Sp tranmitted?
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Phlebomotine Sandflies
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What is a blood parasite that causes African Sleeping Sickness?
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Trypanosoma Brucei
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What is a flagellate that causes genital infxn from a STD?
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Trichomonas Vaginalis
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What type of flagellate causes diarrhea and malabsorption?
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Giardia Lamblia
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What are the intermediate hosts of Trematodes?
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Snails
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What is a liver fluke?
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Fasciola Hepatic
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What trematode causes biliary obstruction and infammation?
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Fasciola Hepatica---Liver Fluke
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What is the Orienta Lung Fluke that causes chronic cough and hemoptysis?
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Paragonimus Westermani
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What has clincal manifestations of allergic dermatitis, Katayama Fever, Acute Schisto. and Granulamatous lesions?
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Schitosoma Sp
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What is a blood fluke that causes abdominal pain, hepatosplenamegaly and bloody diarrhea?
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Schistosoma Sp
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What type of Nematode is a human hookworm causing chronic anemia in the south?
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Ancyclostoma Duodenale
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What type of parasite has a scolex and is a hermphrodite?
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Cestodes- tapeworms
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What type of parasite causes a lesion in the parietal lobe of the brain - neurocysticerosis?
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Taenia Solium
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What is the intermediate host in Tania Solium? Definitive host?
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Intermed. Host- pigs
Def. Host- humans |
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What is the dog heartworm?
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Dirafilaria immitis
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What is the dog roundworm?
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Toxocara Canus
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What is a human filiarial worm that causeslymphedma and elephantitis?
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Wuchereria Bancrofti
Brugaia Malayi |
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What is a big human hookworm that causes intestinal obstruction its so big?
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Ascaris Lumbricoids
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What is a dog hookworm that causes Cutaneous Larval Migrans?
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Ancytostoma Caninum
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What are mites that cause weepy, crusty patches in webs of finger and on wrists?
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Sarcptes Scabiei
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What is head lice?
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Pediculus Capitis
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What is body lice?
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Pediculus Humanus
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What is pubic lice?
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Pthirus Pubis
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What parasite causes Typhus?
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Rickettsia Prowazeki
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What parasite causes Relapsing Fever?
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Borllia Recurrentis
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What parasite causes Trench Fever?
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Bartonella (Rochalimaea) quintana
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What causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever?
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Rickettsia Rickettii
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What bacteria causes Lyme Dx?
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Borellia Burgdorferi
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What protozoan paraste causes a malaria-like infxn of RBCs?
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Babesia Microti
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What spider causes pain and swelling at bite, has fang marks, and is for the most part asymptomatic?
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Black Widow Spider
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How do you diagnose Naegleria Fowleri?
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Trophozites cultured from CSF and tissue and flagellated forms in CSF
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How does Naegleria Fowleri enter the human?
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thu Olfactory Neuroepithelium causing primar amoebc meningoencephalitis, PAM
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What is a Protoza that is assoc. with diarrhea, toxic megacolon, and abscesses in liver, brain and lung?
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Entamoeba Histolytica
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What is the source of the highly invasive Entamoeba Histolytica?
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Ingestion of mature cysts in fecally contaminatd food, water or on hands
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Cysts are typically found in ________ stools and Trophozites are typically found in ______stools
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cysts---formed stools
trophozites----diarrheal stools |
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Toxoplasma Gondii oocyts and tissues cysts transform into ___________once ingested by a cat.
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Tachyzoites
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What are the most common clinica manifestations with Congenital Toxoplasmosis seen at birth?
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Hydrocephalis
Intracranial Calcifications Chorioretinitis |
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What are long term clinical manifestation seen with Congenital Toxoplasmiosis?
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deafness
visual impairment learning disabilties |
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What are the clinical manifestation in healthy adult and children infected with Toxoplasma Gondii?
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usually Asymptomatic, or can develope Mono-like syndrome
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What are t clinical manifestation in immune suppressed infected with Toxoplasma Gondii?
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Encephalitis
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Leishmania Donovani causes what?
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Visceral Leishmaniasis - worst one!
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Leishmania Tropica / Mexicana causes what?
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Cutaneous Leishmanias
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Leishmania Braziliensis/Peruviana causes what?
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Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis
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What are the clinical manifestation of Visceral Leishmaniasis?
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high fever, substantial weight loss, swelling of the spleen and liver and anemia. if untreated 100% fatality rate in two years
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What is the Geographic Distrubition of Cutaneous Leishmanias?
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Mediterrean, Equatorial Africa, Middle East, India, China
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What is the Geographic Distrubition of Mucocutaneous Leishmanias?
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South Texas, Southeast Mexico, central and south America
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What is the Geographic Distrubrition of Visceral Leishmania?
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India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sudan, and Brazil
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What is aka Visceral Leishmania?
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Kalaazar
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What is the diagnosis of Leishmaniasis?
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ID of amasitgote form in tissue
Serology |
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what parasite uses a spine to get thru tissue?
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Schisotmsoma Sp.
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What are the 3 life forms of Schistosomiasis during the life cycle?
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Sporocyts
Cercaria Miracadium |
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What trematode are adult forms found in vessels of the bladder and eggs are released in urine? What is the spine like?
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Schistosoma Haematobium- pine on the end
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What Trematode has adult form in venous plexus of intestines and eggs are released in stool? Spine?
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Schistoma Mansoni and Japonicum.
Mansoni has spine on the SIDE |
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What can happen 4-6 weeks prior to infxn with Schistomsoma sp.?
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Acute Schistosomiasis- fever, cough, ab pain, uticarial rash, hepatosplenamegaly
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Acute Schisotomiasis is due to what?
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Initial immune reaction to egg production
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What is seen with Chronic illness caused by Schistomasoma Sp.?
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Granulatmous Lesions
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What is the diagnosis of schisotosoma sp.?
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ID of eggs in stool or urine
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What happens if a human eats the adult form of Taenia Solium?
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Nothing really, just goes to the intestines.
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What happens if a human eats the egg of Taenia Solium?
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larval form, cysticerci, develops and cysts mature in 3 mos. and can go to the brain. causing NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS
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How are humans infected by Taenia Solium?
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by eating undercooked pork since pigs are intermediate hosts.
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What is the diagnosis of Neurocysticerosis?
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CT, MRI and Serology. CAUTION WITH DYING- can cause anaphylactic shock
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What are Red Mites that causes intense pruiritc lesions?
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Chiggers
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What is a re-emeging pathogen among homeless populations?
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Trench Fever caused by Bartonella (Rochalimaea) Quintana
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What are some clinical manifestations of Trench Fever?
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Chronic Bacteremia, Endocarditis, Bacillary Angiomatosis
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