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Classic bacteria in genital area keeping chronic infection to minimum?
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lactoobacilli
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Describe the KOH preparation and the whiff test
BV= bacterial vaginosis |
KOH prep- Vaginal secretions placed on slide with 10% KOH solution and covered with cover slide.
Whiff- fishy or amine odor when KOH added to vaginal discharge. Positive “whiff” test is suggestive of BV. |
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Symptoms of bacerial baginosis (BV)
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Increased oder after sex
- discharge- thing off-white |
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What is going on here what does it mean?
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clue cell on pap stain
- mean you have BV |
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This is phase contrast what is it?
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trichomonas
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what infections do we see?
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trichomonas, Giemsa see flagella
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Most common parasitic infection in US...flagellated ovoid protozoan?
Symptoms? Identified? |
Trichomonas vaginalis
usually asymptomatic- but fiery red appearance, called strawberry cervix - wet mounts of vag disharge |
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pap stain what is it?
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clue cell with trichomonas looks like blue blobs sometimes adherent to pink epithelial cells
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Most common diagnostic findings for trichomoniasis
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Elevated vaginal pH>4.5
Motile trichomonads and many PMN’s on wet prep “Whiff” test can be positive “Strawberry”cervix in 25% |
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What is this picture of?
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strawberry cervix- dilated capillaries and punctate hemorrhages with UTIs
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What is organism and how does it infect you?
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Schistosoma hematobium (see Terminal tail)
egg urinated into water, finds snail and then Cercariae larvae are able to penetrate skin “swimmers itch” |
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What is this?
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The fork-tailed cercarial larvae eventually emerges from the snail, enters the water, and seeks a human host. Photo in the public domain, courtesy CDC.
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What is this in the bladder? If egyptian what cancer would you expect compared to a US citizen?
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peripheral eosinophils high
Found more in Egypt which would be squamous cell carcinoma From US be transitional cell carcinoma |
