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| WHat is cryptococcus neoformans? |
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| fungal disease that is inhaled and spreads to CNS and meninges |
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| What is the main characteristic of cryptococcus neoformans? |
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| Where and what is cryptococcus neoformans associated with? |
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| urban settings, pigeon droppings |
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| Who is at risk for fungal infections of the nervous system? |
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| immunocompromised (AIDS patients) |
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| How do you diagnose cryptococcus neoformans? |
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| negative staining, fluorescent antibody test |
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| How do you treat a fungal infection? |
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| antifungal (amphotericin B and flucytosine) |
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| What causes sleeping sickness? what kind of infection is it? |
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| african trypanosomiasis; parastic ( caused by flagellate protozoan from bite of tsetse fly) |
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| How do you treat parasitic infections? |
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| chemotherapies (not when CNS is involved) and eflornithine |
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| treats parasitic infection (expensive, worsks late in disease, blocks facial hair growth for women) |
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| How do you prevent sleeping sickness? |
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| What do they think chronic fatigue syndrome is caused by? |
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Definition
| viral infection to the brain |
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| What do they think epstein-barr virus is caused by? |
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| immune response to infection in the blood |
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| What are different prion infectionsin animals? |
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| sheep scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow), chronic wasting isease |
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| what are prion infections in humans? |
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| kuru and creutzfelt-Jakob disese |
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| cause lesions in the brain (deposit protein in brain) |
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