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| Diarrhea with crampy abdominal pain following wilderness backpacking trip |
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| India, bloody and pus-filled diarrhea, severe abdominal tenderness with guarding, protozoa on wet mount |
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| HIV pt not on ART with 20 watery stools per day, acid fast cysts (PAS+) |
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| Swimming in brackish pond, protozoa in CNS, penetrates cribiform plate |
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| Kenya safari, fever, headache, vertigo, nausea, joint pain, C-shaped flagellated organism with prominent nucleus |
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| Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense |
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| treatment for T. rhodesiense/gambiense without CNS involvement? |
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| treatment for T. rhodesiense/gambiense with CNS involvement? |
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| splenomegaly, parasitemia, banana-shaped gametocytes |
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| treatment for P. Falciparum? |
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| Quinine/Quinidine or Mefloquine |
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| pt birdwatching in equador gets papular lesion that grows and ulcerates |
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| How do you diagnose cutaneous Leishmaniasis? |
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| treatment for visceral leishmaniasis (L. donovani) |
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| Ampho B (Miltefosine also used) |
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| Treatment for cutaneous/mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis |
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| pentavalent antimony aka Sodium Stibogluconate (Miltefosine also used) |
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| chronic illness involved heart (dilated cardiomyopathy or arrhythmias) after visiting central or south America |
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| Treatment for trypanosoma cruzi? |
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| Nifurtimox or Benznidazole |
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| amastigotes in mononuclear cells, hepatosplenomegaly |
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| HIV pt, ring-enhancing lesions in cerebrum on CT |
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| Toxoplasmosis encephalitis |
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| Treatment for Toxoplasmosis? |
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| Pyrimethamine + Sulfadiazine (or Clindamycin) |
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| How to make a diagnosis for Trichomonas? |
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| Do a wet mount – microscopic analysis of a sample of vaginal discharge suspended in a drop of saline |
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| How to treat trichomonas? |
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| Metronidazole, single dose |
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| treatment for E. vermicularis? |
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| Mebendazole or albendazole |
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| how do patients acquire E. vermicularis? |
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| earth worm-like parasite in stool? |
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| how do patients acquire ascaris? |
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| Ingesting ova in contaminated food |
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| parasite that produces >200,000 ova per day? |
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| roundworm that can cause biliary obstruction? |
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| treatment for intestinal nematodes in general? |
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| hyperinfection syndrome (pneumonia, dysentery, sepsis) in immunocompromised pt |
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| home made sausage, bilateral periorbital edema, myalgia |
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| how do you diagnose trichinosis? |
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| Muscle biopsy – larvae form cysts in the muscles |
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| microcytic anemia after a trip to rural Bolivia |
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| how do you diagnose hookworm? |
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| fluid filled blister on ankle/foot |
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| how does one acquire dracunculus? |
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| Drinking water from a well containing an infected copepod |
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| works on banks of river in Nigeria, blurring of vision, injected conjunctivae, pruritic, indurated thighs and upper arms |
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| how do you diagnose onchocerciasis? |
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| Obtain a skin snip of indurated skin, examine for presence of larvae |
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| how do you treat onchocerciasis? |
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| painful skin lesions (calabar swellings) and a larvae in conjunctivae |
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| Test used to confirm loa loa? |
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| Microscopic analysis of a Giemsa stained blood smear |
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| lymphedema in the legs, scrotum, ascites |
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| W. bancrofti or B. malayi |
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| how is W. bancrofti or B. malayi transmitted? |
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| Mosquito carries microfilariae |
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| how do you treat filariasis? |
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| rescue clinic puppy, hepatomegaly, lesion on the optic disc, 22% eosinophils |
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| toxacara canis (ocular LM) |
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| sushi, diminished vibratory sense and ataxic gait, hypersegmented PMNs, macrocytic anemia |
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| Ivory Coast, long white ribbon like structure in stool, uterus contains 24 lateral branches |
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| Beef tapeworm (T. saginata) |
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| seizures, 1-2 cm cystic lesions in the brain which are lucent in the center |
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| Pork tapeworm (T. solium) |
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| 10 cm fluid-filled cyst in the liver with two smaller cystic structures within it, pt is asymptomatic |
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| how do you diagnose echinococcus? |
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| how do you treat echinococcal cysts? |
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| Surgery/aspiration + albendazole |
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| how do you treat S. haematobium? |
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| pruritic rash after swimming in a fresh water lake in Wisconsin |
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| RUQ pain, dilated biliary tract, 12% eosinophils |
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| Liver fluke (opisthorchis sinensis) |
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| which parasite infection can lead to cholangiocarcinoma? |
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| Liver fluke (opisthorchis sinensis) |
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| fever, L pleural effusion, 3.5 cm nodule in LLL |
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| how does one acquire an infection with P. westermani? |
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| Undercooked crayfish and crabs |
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