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| parasite which causes illness, preventable by cooking meat, and washing hands after handling cat excrement |
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| parasite known as "hookworm," preventable by sanitarily disposing of human waste |
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| pinworm, preventable through good hygenic practices |
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| causes illness, preventable by cooking pork and game meats thouroughly |
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| caused by trypanosoma cruzi, transmitted through vectors of the reduviid bug family |
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| parasite responsible for malaria |
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| parasitic worm transmitted through the horsefly, and the mango and deer flies |
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| parasite which causes fever, anemia, or sudden cardiac death, transmitted by the deer tick |
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| EA: roundworm (W.bancrofti, B. malayi) |
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| katayama fever [schistosomiasis] |
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| EA: blood fluke, members of the schistosoma family |
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| EA of an itchy skin condition with an apt name |
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| EA of an intestinal infectious disease |
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| after stool sample examination, a string is attached to a gelatin capsule which is then swallowed. It is retrieved four hours later, after which the mucus on the string is analyzed microscopically |
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| while the patient sleeps, the apt tool is used to retrieve a sample from around the anus, it is then touched to a slide, and analyzed for the eggs or bodies of the related organism. Often it must be done three times in a row. |
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| treatment for roundworms, hookworms, pinworms, and whipworms |
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| a species of parasitic worms that live in human intestines, and can be picked up from any surface, or food particle through the mouth, nose or anus. |
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| prevention, detection, and treatment of helminth infection |
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| detected through fecal examination, keep kitchen clean, thoroughly cook meats, treated with vermifuges, wash hands frequently |
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| substance absorbs radiation, stores it, and slowly releases it as light due to the electron returning to its base energy state |
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| substance absorbs energy, and immediately releases it as light due to the dropping of the electron to its base energy state (longer wavelength) |
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| oxygen reacts with luciferin via luciferase to cause a chemical reaction that raises an electron to an excited state, then light is released as it falls back |
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| add all the logarithms together, divide by the quantity of numbers, then take the antilog |
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| the ability of a test to obtain a true value |
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| any departure from a true value, often unavoidable |
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| the ability of a test to be reproduced |
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| value that estimates random errors, quantifies the digression of the results from the mean value |
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| the square of the amount which the values digress from the mean: typically shows distribution of the values around the mean |
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| a material high in purity, and with well known composition, and chemical and physical properties, used to compare to retrieved samples |
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| particles containing the general composition R-C(=O)-R. |
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| the production of the related group in response to sparce digestible carbohydrates in one's system |
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| a class of protein found in the blood stream that are insoluble in water and half-saturated ammonium solution |
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| alpha 1, alpha 2, beta, and gamma determined based on their motility in a pH 8.6 electrophoresis medium |
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| inorganic molecules that have an inverse relationship with plasma calcium |
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| reacts to elevated levels of the related ion in serum: if too high, it will keep bones from reabsorbing it, and keep it from being released into the blood stream |
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| concentration of related molecule in blood. Taken at CO2 pp = 40 torr, and fully oxygenated at 37 C |
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| the sum of the bicarbonate and dissolved related molecule in plasma. A measure of the concentration of all compounds containing these two molecules |
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| a group of RBC antigens that are characterised by their reaction to anti-Fya serum |
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| a (+,+,-) b (+,-,+); whites are commonly positive, blacks are commonly negative, which helps them protect against malaria |
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| RBC antigens composed of K, k, Kp(a,b) |
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| chronic granulomatous disease |
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| someone with a knull phenotype (having none of the Kell blood group antigens), incapable of fighting bacterial and viral infections |
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| type of granulocyte which is stained black by the related pH, and play a role in allergic reactions, including inflammation |
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| granulocyte which stains a pale lilac when treated with the related pH, and protects against microorganism infection |
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| stains red when treated with the related pH and protects against parasitic infection |
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| hormone responsible for red blood cell production |
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| DNA remnants found in the red blood cells of patients with a damaged or missing spleen |
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| aggregates of denatured hemoglobin found as spots in RBCs |
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| rbc fragments with abnormal shapes: indicitive of hemolysis or damage to small blood vessels |
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| four gamma chains, rather than two alpha and two beta |
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| the related iron is oxidized from ferrous to ferric |
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| has the related group added to the iron |
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