Parasitology Flashcards
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the parasites causing malaria and mention malaria types
Plasmodium vivax Benign tertian malaria
Plasmodium ovale Ovale tertian malaria
Plasmodium malariae Quartan malaria
Plasmodium falciparum Malignant tertian malaria
the mode of infection of Plasmodium
the anopheles injects the sporozoites into the blood
the infective stage of plasmodium
sporozoites
definitive host of plasmodium
female anopheles
hypnozoite are related to
liver phase of P.vivax and P. ovale
the cycle of the malaria disease (plasmodium)
do check it
Rupture of infected red blood cell of plasmodium occurs every
3rd day in P. vivax & P.ovale
4th day in P.malarie
irreg. in P.falciprum
diagnostic stages of Plasmodium
schizont, late trophozoite, early trophozoite (ring form), gametocytes
pathogenesis of malaria
- Malaria paroxysms
- haemolytic anemia
- hepatosplenomegaly
what is the stages of the malaria paroxysms (fever)
- Cold stage
The patient has sudden chill, extreme cold and his temperature rises(15minutes) - Hot stage
The patient has headache, high fever and hot, dry and flushed skin - Sweating stage
The patient has profuse sweating and temperature falls
why clinical attacks reappear after disappearing?
- due to Presence of hypnozoites in the liver[Relapse] which occurs in P. vivax and P. ovale
- Presence of low-grade parasitaemia when the patient becomes
immunosuppressed [Recrudescence] which occurs in P.malariae and P. falciparum
ages of RBCs that affect and its specific plasmodium
- Plasmodium vivax & Plasmodium ovale prefer to invade young RBCs
- Plasmodium malariae prefers toinvade old RBCs
- Plasmodium falciparum invades RBCs of any age
causes nephrotic syndrome
Chronic Plasmodium malariae infection due to deposition of immune complexes on glomerular wall to activate complement cascade leading to kidney tissue damage
complication of chronic P.malariae infection
Nephrotic syndrome
Complication of P.falciparum
- Knob formation on the infected RBCs which adhere to the blood capillaries so decrease blood supply so death of organ tissue
- Hyper-reactive malarial splenomegaly (Tropical splenomegaly syndrome)
- Black water fever
Lab diagnosis of Malaria
- Giemsa-stained thin & thick blood film examination to demonstrate the parasite stages
malaria pigments is a remnant of haemoglobin
Stippling: degeneration process occurring in Plasmodium infected RBCs
* Schuffner’s dots of vivax and ovale
* Ziemann’s dots of malariae
* Maurer’s clefts of falciparum
2- Detection of circulating parasite antigen using monoclonal antibodies
3- Detection of parasite DNA and RNA in patient’s blood using PCR
Tissue schizonticides of plasmodium
pyrimethamine or primaquine
Blood schizonticides of plasmodium
chloroquine or mefloquine
Blood gametocytes of plasmodium
chloroquine or primaquine
People that are naturally resistant to malaria infection
- Absence of Duffy antigen
- Haemoglobin S (in sickle-cell disease)
- Deficiency of G6PD enzyme
causes Microcytic Hypochromic anemia
Ancylostoma duodenale
trichuris Trichura
causes rectal prolapse
T. Trichura
causes macrocytic hyperchromic anemia
Diphyllobothrium Latum
2 morphological forms of Leishmania
amastigote intracellulary & promastigote in vector and in culture