Flashcards in Malaria Deck (15)
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Peridomestic
living in or around human habitation
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Sylvatic
disease contracted by wild animals
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Anthropophilic
go inside people's houses, they like people
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What's the name of the malaria mosquito?
Plasmodium spp.
~ falciparum (50% of cases, almost all death)
~ vivax (43% cases)
~ malariae
~ ovale
~ knowlesi
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Recrudescence
erythrocytic infection falls to subclinical/subpatent levels but is not eliminated then reappears
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Relapses
erythrocytic infection is eliminated but dormant hypnozoites in liver reactivate and generate a new erythrocytic infection
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Cold stage
shivering, then temperature rises rapidly
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Hot stage
peripheral vasodilation (flushed appearance), rapped pulse + high temperature
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Sweating stage
copious sweating = fall in temperature
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Name the symptomatic stages in Maleria
1. hot
2. cold
3. sweating
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Morbidity
the condition of being diseased
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Mortality
death
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DALYs
a.k.a. disability adjusted life years
The sum of years of potential life lost due to premature
mortality and the years of productive life lost due to disability
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List the methods of malaria detection (6).
1. presumptive diagnosis
2. microscopy
3. Qualtitive buffy coat
4. Antigen detection
5. PCR
6. Antibody - ELISA, IFAT
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