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44 Cards in this Set
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Citrinin |
Cardiac beriberi |
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Psilocybin |
Mycetismus cerebralis |
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Pigeon poop; thick capsular polysaccharide |
Cryptococcosis |
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Inhalation of water |
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (Naegleriafowleri) |
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Winterbottom’s Sign (swollen lymph nodes);tsetse flies; chancre at bite; trypomastigotes |
African Trypanosomiasis |
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Raccoon roundworm; larvae migrate to nervoussystem; no worms develop; vision loss; larva in biopsy |
Neural larva migrans |
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Infection by uncooked mollusks or crustaceans;rats as reservoir; eosinophilic tissue around larva |
Angiostrongylosis |
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Cause elephantiasis: |
· Basidiobolomycosis (Basidiobolus ranarum) with woodyconsistency; Subcutaneous Zygomycosis · Filariasis (Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugiamalayi) |
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Freely movable cutaneous nodules; elephantiasis;soil and reptile dung; hyphae with swollen ends and papilla |
Basidiobolomycosis |
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Nasal swellings; painless nasal polyps;subcutaneous nodules; hyphae with terminal conidia |
Conidiobolomycosis |
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Chlamydospores in asteroid bodies; cigar shapedbudding yeasts |
Sporotrichosis |
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Contaminated catheter; non-encapsulatedyeast-like cells |
Rhodotorulosis |
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Tick bite; pear-shaped merozoites; “Maltese cross” inside erythrocytes; hemolyticanemia |
Babesiosis |
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Blackwater Fever (renal failure); mosquito bite;sporozoites injected; merozoites, schizonts, or gametocytes seen |
Malaria (Plasmodium) |
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Romana’s Sign (swollen eye); reduviid bug feces;metacyclic trypomastigotes |
American Trypanosomiasis/ Chaga’s Disease |
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Mosquito’s in tropical areas; worm inlymphatics; warty-like skin; microfilariae |
Filariasis |
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Allergic reaction to inhalation of spores |
Lycoperdonosis |
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Cotton-wool spots in retina; interstitial plasmacell pneumonia; crescent-shaped cysts |
Pneuomocystosis |
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Spore-contaminated fomites; hay; fungus balls;acute-angle branching septate hyphae |
Aspergillosis |
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Arthrospores; soil |
Geotrichosis |
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Spore-contaminated fomites; microabscesses;right-angle branching nonseptate hyphae |
Mucormycosis |
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Large, branching, septate hyaline hyphae;intracellular; soil |
Hyalohyphomycosis |
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“Crab Claw” shadow; dry cough; broad-based,budding yeast cells |
Blastomycosis |
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Bad watery diarrhea; malabsorption;self-limiting enteritis; internal autoinfection; 4-6 micron round oocysts with4 pyriform-shaped nuclei |
Cryptosporidiosis |
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Villous blunting, food malabsorption, waterydiarrhea; unsporulated, glassy wrinkled spherical oocysts |
Cyclosporiasis |
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Collagen deposition, watery diarrhea,malabsorption; ovoid, unsporulated oocysts with 2 layered walls |
Isosporiasis |
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Greasy diarrhea; inflammation of gall bladder;flagellated trophozoites with 2 nuclei or cysts with 4 nuclei and axostyles |
Giardiasis |
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Dysentery with severe diarrhea; secreteshyaluronidase and proteolytic enzymes; large ulcers and abscesses in GI; ciliatedovoid trophozoites or cysts, containing kidney-shaped macronuclei |
Balantidiasis |
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Spores with central waistband, a coiled polartubule and 2 nuclei; watery diarrhea |
Microsporidiosis |
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Ingestion of infected fish with metacercariae;worms live in bile duct and liver; biliary tract carcinomas; liver enlargementwith anemia; ascites; diarrhea; small thick-shelled operculated eggs |
Clonorchiasis |
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Enlarged fibrotic liver and spleen; squamouscell epithelioma; conjunctival granulomas; cercariae penetrate skin in water;worms live in blood vessels; eggs migrate to GI and urinary bladder; operculatedeggs with single spines |
Schistosomiasis/ Bilharzia |
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Infection by eating raw plants; worms live inbile duct and liver; worms and eggs damage liver tissue and other organs; largethin-shelled operculated eggs |
Fascioliasis |
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Infection by eating raw infected fish withplerocercoid larvae; enteritis; worms deplete vitamin B12;pernicious anemia; thin-shelled operculated eggs |
Diphyllobothriasis |
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Infection by ingesting flea with cysticercoidlarvae; hemorrhagic enteritis; gravid proglottids; egg packets withonchospheres |
Dipylidiasis |
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Hydatid cysts; Hypersensitivity to cysts; epileptiformseizures; subretinal granulomas |
Echinococcosis/ Hydatid Disease |
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Infection by ingestion of beetle or flea larvaecontaining cysticercoid larvae; small tapeworms; ovoid thin-shelled eggscontaining onchosheres |
Hymenolepsiasis |
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Infection by eating undercooked pork or beefcontaining cysticercus larvae; Cysticercus cellulosae with subretinal massesand siezures; eggs with hexacanth embryos and radially striated shells |
Taeniasis |
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Infection by eating raw fish, squid, orcrustaceans; larvae feed on tissue, but do not develop worms; intense sorethroat; peritonitis; larvae found encysted in muscle |
Anisakiasis |
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Filariform larvae penetrate skin; worms suckblood; iron deficiency anemia; skin rashes; thin-shelled eggs with bluntedrounded ends containing 4-8 embryos |
Ancylostomiasis |
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Loffler’s Syndrome (eosinophilia in lungtissue); appendicitis; pneumonitis; retinal granulomas; polyprotein allergens;ovoid-shaped eggs with thick rough outer coverings |
Ascariasis |
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Appendicitis; pelvic peritoneal granulomas; analpruritus; elongated thin-shelled eggs with well-developed embryos and an asymmetric, flat side |
Enterobiasis |
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Itchy serpinginous macular rashes; pneuomonitis;diarrhea; intestinal ulcers and malabsorption; filariform larvae penetrateskin; autoinfection; larvated thin-shelled eggs in feces and rhobditiformlarvae in bronchial washings |
Strongyloidiasis |
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Rectal prolapse; mucoid diarrhea; appendicitis;barrel-shaped polar plugged eggs |
Trichuriasis |
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Infection by eating undercooked meat (wildbore); malaise; bilateral periorbital edema; myositis; bilateral conjunctivalhemorrhages; maculopapular rashes; encysted larvae found in muscle biopsy |
Trichinosis |
