Term
| Treatment for Entamoeba histolytica |
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Definition
Metronidazole and iodoquinol
(bloody diarrhea, liver abscess, flask-shaped ulcer) |
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Term
| Treatment for Giardia lamblia |
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Definition
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Term
| Treatment for Cryptosporidium |
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Definition
No treatment. Prevent by filtering water suplies
Causes severe diarrhea in AIDS pts |
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Term
| Treatment for Toxoplasma gondii |
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Definition
Sulfadiazine + pyrimethamine
(ring enhancing brain abscess in HIV pts, or congenital "classic triad" of chorioretinitis, hydrocephalus, and intracranial calcifications) |
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Term
| Treatment for Trypanosoma brucei, gambiense and rhodesiense |
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Definition
| Suramin for blood borne disease or melarsoprol for CNS penetration |
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Term
| Treatment for Trypanosoma cruzi |
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Definition
Nifurtimox
(Chagas disease, destroys myenteric SM, dilated cardiomyopathy, megacolon, achalasia) |
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Term
| Treatment for Leishmania donovani |
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Definition
sodium stibogluconate
(spiking fevers, hepatosplenomegally, pancytopenia) |
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Term
|
Definition
| Begin with choloroquine, if resistant use mefloquine. Add primaquin for vivax/ovale (dormant forms in liver) |
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Term
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Definition
Quinine, clindamycin
(fever and hemolytic anemia, NE US, "maltese cross") |
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Term
| Treatment for Trichomonas vaginalis |
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Definition
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