parasites who falls victim Flashcards

1
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sewage contaminates drinking water or when people drink unfiltered mountain stream water

A

Giardia lamblia

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2
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MSM common carriers

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Entamoeba histolytica

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3
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contaminated water treatment centers and infants in day care (or sporadic in travelers)

A

cryptosporidium

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4
Q

eat contaminated respberries

A

cyclospora

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5
Q

spores that are found in undercooked meat (like pork) or food contaminated with cat feces

A
  • Toxoplasma gondii

- raw pork: trichnella spiralis, taenia solium (pork tapeworm)

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6
Q

reactivation of latent infection in an immunocompromised pt

A

Toxoplasma gondii

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7
Q

preg women should avoid cats bc of

A

Toxoplasma gondii

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8
Q

tsetse fly bite

A

African sleeping sickness from trypanosoma rhodesiense and trypanosoma gambiense

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9
Q

from swimming in lakes or contaminated pools

A
  • Naegleria fowleri
  • Acanthamoeba
  • Balamuthia mandrillaris
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10
Q

southern US all the way down to mexico, central and south America

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chagas dis from trypanosoma cruzi (the American trypanosome)

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11
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in rodents, opossums, and armadillos

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chagas dis from trypanosoma cruzi (the American trypanosome)

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12
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Vector is the reduviid bug (kissing bug)

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chagas dis from trypanosoma cruzi (the American trypanosome)

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13
Q

tick (mouse reservoir)

A

babesiosis

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14
Q

NE coastal US

A

babesiosis

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15
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from female anopheles mosquito

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malaria

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16
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if sickle cell, not get

A

malaria from p. falciparum

17
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carried by rodents, dogs, and foxes, Transmitted by the sandfly.

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leishmania from leishmania tropica, chagasi, major, braziliensis, donovani

18
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found in south and central America, Africa, and the middle east.

A

leishmania from leishmania tropica, chagasi, major, braziliensis, donovani

19
Q

Venezuela and Ethiopia.

A

diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis

20
Q

if deficeint cell mediated immune systems

A

diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis

21
Q

malnourished kids

A

visceral leishmaniasis kala-azar

22
Q

pig feces

A

balamuthia mandriallaris

23
Q

Africa and central and south America.

A

Onchocerca volvulus

24
Q

black fly

A

Onchocerca volvulus

25
Q

in rivers

A

Onchocerca volvulus

26
Q

pacific islands and Africa.

A

Wuchereria bancrofti

27
Q

Malay Peninsula and Southeast Asia.

A

brugia malayi

28
Q

mosquito

A

Wuchereria bancrofti and brugia malayi

29
Q

Sudan and ghana

A

Dracunculus medinensis (guinea worm)

30
Q

from drinking freshwater

A

Dracunculus medinensis (guinea worm)

31
Q

SE US

A

Cutaneous larval migrans (anclyostoma braziliense)

32
Q

mexico, central and south America, Philippines and SE Asia.

A

neurocysticercosis from taenia solium (pork tapeworm) when humans ingest the eggs

33
Q

undercooked beef

A

Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm)

34
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in freshwater fish

A

Diphyllobothrium latum (fish tapeworm)

35
Q

snails

A

trematoeds (flukes) (schistosoma (blood flukes))

36
Q

tropics

A

schistosoma (blood flukes)