Microbiology Terms – Flashcards
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| blood diarrhea, liver abscess, RUQ pain |
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| entamoeba histolytica |
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| transmitted by cysts in water |
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| Giardia, E histoytica, cryptosporidium |
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| dx: trophozoites or cysts in stool |
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| giardia, e histolytica |
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| e histolytica tx |
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| metronidazole and iodoquinol |
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| spiking fevers, hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia |
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| leishmania |
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| sandfly |
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| leishmania |
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| macrophages containing mastigotes |
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| leishmania |
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| leishmania tx |
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| sodium stibugluconate |
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| undercooked fish |
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| c sinensis |
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| causes gallstones and cholangiocarcionma |
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| c sinensis |
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| c sinensis tx |
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| praziquantel |
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| bloating foul-smelling diarrhea |
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| giardia |
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| transmitted by cysts in water |
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| giardia, e histolytica, cryptosporidium |
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| giardia tx |
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| metronidazole |
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| severe diarrhea in AIDS |
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| cryptosporidium |
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| cysts on acid fast stain |
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| cryptosporidium |
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| cryptosporidium tx |
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| none; prevention by filtering water supply |
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| brain abscess in HIV patient |
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| toxoplasma |
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| ring enhancing lesion |
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| toxoplasma |
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| meat or cat feces |
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| toxoplasma |
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| toxoplasma tx |
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| sulfadiazine and pyrimethamine |
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| rapidly fatal meningoencephalitis |
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| naegleria fowleri |
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| freshwater lakes |
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| naegleria fowleri |
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| enter via cribiform lake |
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| naegleria fowleri |
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| naegleria tx |
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| amphotericin B |
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| african sleeping sickness causes |
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| trypanosoma gambiense/rhodensiense |
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| tsetse fly |
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| trypanosoma gambiense/rhodensiense |
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| trypanosoma gambiense/rhodensiense tx |
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| suramin for blood borne or melarsoprol for CNS penetration |
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| malaria causes |
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| plasmodium |
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| malaria with dormant form in liver |
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| p. vivaxe/ovale |
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| malaria that occludes capillaries in brain, kidneys and lungs |
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| p. falciparum |
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| banana shaped |
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| plasmodium gametocyte |
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| malaria tx |
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| chloroquine, if R then mefloquine vivax/ovale = add primaquine |
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| fever and hemolytic anemia |
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| babseiosis |
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| ixodes tick |
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| babesia |
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| maltese cross |
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| babesia |
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| babesia tx |
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| quinine, clindamycin |
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| dilated cariomyopathy, megacolon, megaesophagus |
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| trypanosoma cruzi |
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| reduviid bug |
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| trypanosoma cruzi |
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| t cruzi tx |
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| nifurtimox |
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| foul-smelling greenish vaginal discharge |
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| trichomonas |
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| treatment for trichomonas |
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| metronidazole |
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| pinworm |
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| enterobius vermicularis |
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| anal pruritis |
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| e vermicularis |
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| pinworm tx |
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| bendazoles or pyrantel pamoate |
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| ingested -> lungs -> trachea -> swallow |
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| giant roundworm |
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| giant roudnworm |
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| ascaris lumbricoides |
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| roundworm tx |
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| bendazolesor pyrantel pamoate |
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| undercook meat -> periorbital edema |
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| tichinella spiralis |
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| inflammation of mm |
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| trichinella |
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| soil -> blood -> lung -> trachea -> swallow |
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| strongyloides |
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| strongyloides tx |
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| bendazoles or ivermectin |
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| hookworms |
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| ancylostoma duodenale, necator mericanus |
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| cause anemia |
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| hookworm |
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| hookworm tx |
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| bendazoles or pyrantel pamoate |
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| lymphatic vessels -> elephantitis |
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| wuchereria bancrofti |
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| w bancrofti tx |
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| diethylcarbamazine |
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| drinking water -> skin inflammation and ulceration |
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| dracunculus medinensis |
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| d. medinensis tx |
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| niridazole |
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| female blackfies |
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| onchocerca vovulus |
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| hyperpigmentated skin, river blindness |
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| onchocerca volvulus |
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| onchocerca vlvulus tx |
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| ivermectin |
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| deer fly, horse fly and mango fly |
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| loa loa |
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| skin swelling |
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| loa loa |
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| loa loa tx |
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| diethylcarbamazine |
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| ranulomas and visceral larva migrans |
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| toxocara canis |
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| from food contaminated with eggs |
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| toxocara canis |
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| pork tapeworm |
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| taenia solium |
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| neuro/cysticercosis |
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| taenia solium |
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| t solium tx |
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| praziquantel or bendazoles |
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| larvae in raw freshwater fish |
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| diphyllobothrium latum |
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| B12 deficiency |
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| diphyllobothrium latum |
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| d. latum tx |
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| praziquantel |
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| eggs in dog feces -> cysts in liver |
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| echinococcus granulosus |
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| causes anaphylaxis if g released from cysts |
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| eichinococcus granulosis |
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| snails are the host |
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| schistosoma |
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| granulomas, fibrois and inflammation of spleen and liver |
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| schistosoma mansoni |
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| squamous cell CA of bladder |
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| schistosoma haematobium |
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| undercooked crab meat |
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| paragonimus westermani |
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| p. westermani tx |
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| praziquantel |
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| nematodes that are ingested |
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| enterobius, ascaris, trichinella |
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| nematodes with cutaneous route of |
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| strongyloides, ancylostoma, necator |
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| portal HTN |
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| schistosoma mansoni |
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| typhoid fever |
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| salmonella typhi |
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| epidemic typhus |
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| rickettsia prowazekii |
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| endemic typhus |
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| rickettsia typhi |
