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30 Cards in this Set
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Organism Appropriate treatment |
Ascaris lumbricoides Treatment - albendazole or mebendazole |
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Arthropod? What does it transmit? |
Xenopsylla cheopis - no combs, mesopleural rod Transmits plague and murine typhus |
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Species? Life cycle stage? |
Entamoeba histolytica (has engulfed RBCs) Life cycle stage - trophozoite |
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Front (Term) |
Wuchereria bancrofti Chronic infection - lymphoedema of limbs or genitals. Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia |
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Front (Term) |
Giardia duodenalis Cyst |
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Front (Term) |
Anopheles male Gender - club shaped end of palps, hairy antennae |
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Front (Term) |
Trichuris trichuria Albendazole or mebendazole |
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In Tanzania? And vector |
Trypanosoma brucei rhodiense Glossina sp |
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Front (Term) |
Plasmodium ovale Trophozoite stage |
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Front (Term) |
Aedes albopictus Median longitudinal white stripe on thorax |
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Front (Term) |
Female anopheles Malaria, lymphatic filariasis |
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250um |
Strongyloides stercoralis Filariform larva (L3) |
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What is it What is preferred habitat What does it transmit |
Simulium sp Fast flowing rivers, riverine habitats Onchocerciasis |
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What is Intermediate host? |
Schistosoma haematobium Snail, buliunus |
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Front (Term) |
Visceral leishmaniasis Leishmania donovani, leishmania infantum |
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Front (Term) |
Onchocerca volvulus Microfilaria Treated with ivermectin |
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Front (Term) |
Anyclostoma duodenale Necator americanus Transmitted via larval penetration of the skin |
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Front (Term) |
Trichomonas vaginalis (trophozoite) STI |
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Front (Term) |
Plasmodium malariae Late trophozoite (basket form) |
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Schistosoma intercalatum 160um Prevelant in DRC |
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Treatment for relapse? |
Plasmodium vivax gametocytes Treatment for relapse - primaquine |
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Cryptosporidium sp oocyst Acquired through ingestion of faecally contaminated water/food |
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From a liver cyst from a patient in Ethiopia What is intermediate host? |
Echinococcus granulosus Intermediate host - sheep, cattle, herbivore |
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Identify organism and name its habitat? Full name of parasite it transmits? |
Cyclops, fresh water sources Dracunculus medinensis |
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What is it and what stage? When to initiate treatment? |
Plasmodium falciparum ring form trophozoites IV artesunate - when >10% parasitaemia |
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heart muscle biopsy with dilate cardiomyopathy what is it? what is most common route of transmission |
American trypanosomiasis (T. cruzi) - amastigotes Triatomine bugs - kissing bugs (Rhodinius, Triatoma, Panstrongylus) |
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Ulcerated area of intestinal biopsy Name 2 organisms seen and how do you treat? |
Taenia solium, Taenia saginata Praziquantel |
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Amblyomma variegatum Transmitted African tick bite fever - Rickettsia Africae |
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In stagnant pool of water in Brazil |
Culex sp eggs Transmits lymphatic filariasis |
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Stool of rural farmer in SE Asia who keeps pigs 130um |
Fasciolopsis buski egg Infectious stage - metacercariae (found on water plants like water chestnut) |
