Details Title: 4 Fly, flea, louse, mite-borne Description: Diseases, Agents, Descriptions Total Flash Cards: 5 Created: 03/12/2009 09:50:32		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Medical Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term       Loiaisis   Fly-borne Definition H: Nematode (filaria) Loa loa "African eye worm" Spread by Chrysops flies (deer flies, mango flies) Infects tissue; adults can migrate to just under the surface of the eye Term       Three other diseases with fly vectors Definition     Onchocerciasis (river blindness) - blackflies Trypanosomiasis (African sleeping sickness) - tsetse flies Leishmaniasis (kala azar) - sandflies Term        Plague   Flea-borne Definition B: Yersinia pestis Spread by fleas- Xenopsylla Carried by rats Bubonic: swollen lymph nodes; pneumonic: severe pneumonia Term       Typhus   Flea, louse, tick-borne Definition B: Rickettsia typhi, R. prowazekii Spread by rat fleas, lice and ticks Typhus (high fever) is not typhoid (diarrheal) Term       Bartonellosis   Fly, flea, louse-borne Definition B: Bartonella spp. Cat scratch disease (Bartonella henselae); spread by cat fleas; cat reservoir Trench fever (Bartonella quintana), spread by body lice; causes endocarditis Oroya fever/Carrion's disease/verruga peruana (Peruvian wart) (Bartonella bacilliformis), spread by sandflies (Luyzomyia); rare and found only in S. America