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| The genus trypanosoma includes the major pathogens |
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Trypanosoma cruzi,
Trypanosoma gambiense, and
Trypanosoma rhodesiense |
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| Trypanosoma cruzi (Hemoflagellates) disease causes |
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| Trypanosoma cruzi transmission life cycle involves what vector and host |
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| the reduviid bug as the vector and both humans and animals as reservoir host. |
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| Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas Disease) occurs primarily in |
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| rural Central and South America |
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| Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas Disease) occurs rarely in |
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| the southern United States (american disease) |
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| The reduviid bug (Chagas Disease) lives in |
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| the walls of rural huts and feeds at night |
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| The reduviid bug bites around |
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| the mouth and eyes "kissing bug" |
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| Chagas Disease prevalent in |
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| Trypanosomiasis amastigotes can |
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| kill cells and cause inflammation |
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| Amastigotes consist mainly of |
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| Trypanosomiasis amastigotes frequently affects the |
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| cardiac muscle and is most severe |
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| Trypanosomiasis amastigotes neuronal damage leads to |
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| cardiac arrhythmias, megacolon, and megaesophagus |
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| loss of tone in the esophagus |
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| Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease) clinical findings |
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| facial edema and a nodule (chagoma) near the bite, coupled with fever, lymph adenopathy, and hepatosplenomegaly |
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| Acute phase of Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease) resolves in |
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| After the acute phase of Trypanosomiasis most individuals will |
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| remain asymptomatic but some progress to the chronic form of myocarditis and megacolon |
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| Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease) death is due to |
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| cardiac arrhythmias and failure |
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| Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease) treatment for acute phase is |
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| nifurtimox which kills trypomastogotes in blood |
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| Nifurtimox treatment for Trypanosomiasis is ineffective against |
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| Trypanosomiasis treatment for the chronic form is |
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| Prevention of Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease) is |
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| protection from reduviid bites, improved housing, and insect control |
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| Trypanosomiasis drug or vaccine is |
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| No prophylactic drug or vaccine is available |
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| African Trypanosomiasis disease is |
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| T gambiense and T rhodesiense |
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| African Trypanosomiasis causes |
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| African Trypanosomiasis transmission is the |
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| African Trypanosomiasis is endemic is |
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| Sub Saharan Africa, which is the natural habitat of the esetse fly |
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| The trypomastigotes in African Trypanosomiasis spread |
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| from the skin through the blood to the lymph nodes and the brain. |
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| The typical somnolence (sleeping sickness) progresses to coma as a result of |
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| a demyelinating encephalitis. |
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| African Trypanosomiasis clinical findings are |
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| initial lesion is an indurated skin ulcer at the site of fly bite |
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| Chagas disease is prevalent in |
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| 8-11 million people (most prevalent) |
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| African Trypanosomiasis is prevalent in |
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| African Trypanosomiasis after organism enter the blood stream the patient will present with |
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| intermittent weekly fever and lymphadenopathy develop |
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| African Trypanosomiasis The encephalitis is characterized initially by |
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| headache, insomnia and mood changes |
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| African Trypanosomiasis encephalitis is followed by |
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| muscle tremors, slurred speech and apathy that progress to somnolence and coma. |
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| Treatment of African Trypanosomiasis must be initiated |
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| before the development of encephalitis, because suramin, the most effective drug , does not pass the blood-brain barrier wall. |
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| Drug treatment of African Trypanosomiasis |
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| Suramin will cure if given early. Pentamidine is an alternative drug |
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| Trypanosomiasis once it infects the body it will take the form of |
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| Prevention of African Trypanosomiasis |
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| Protection against the fly bite using netting and protective clothing |
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| African Trypanosomiasis once it infects the body will take the form of |
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| a group of infections caused by the flagellate protozoa of the genus leishmania |
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| African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) target organ |
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| clinical types of leishmaniasis |
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| Cutaneous, Mucocutaneous and Visceral |
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| Leishmania is transmitted to humans by |
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| Pathogens of Leishmaniasis |
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| L Donovani, L tropica/L mexicana, and L braziliensis |
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| Leishmania Donovani is cause of |
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| Kala-azar (viceral leishmaniasis) "black fever" |
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| Leishmania tropica and Leishmania mexicana both cause |
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| Leishmania braziliensis causes |
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| mucocutaneous leishmaniasis |
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| Trypanosomiasis diseases are |
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| chagas disease and sleeping sickness |
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| The lesions of cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis are limited to |
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| the skin and mucous membrane |
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| The worst type of Leishmaniasis is |
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| Leishmaniasis after it infects the human will form into |
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| promastigotes transforms to amastigotes |
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| Cutaneous leishmaniasis appears |
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| 2 to 3 weeks after the bite of an infected sand fly as a small cutaneous papule |
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| Cutaneous leishmaniasis lesion grows becoming |
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| indurated and often ulcerated, and develops secondary infection. |
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| Leishmania Donovani patient will present with |
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| black fever (hyperpigmentation), splenomegaly, and enlarged abdomen, intermittent fever, weakness, and weighloss |
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| Cutaneous leishmaniasis The disease is |
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| occasionally self-limiting but usually chronic. |
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| Protozoa associated with black water fever |
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| cerebral malaria, plasmodium falciparum malaria |
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| Kala-Azar viceral leishmaniasis runs its course for |
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| Visceral Leishmaniasis (kala-azar) treatment and prevention is |
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| Prevention of Visceral Leishmaniasis (kala-azar) invloves |
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| protection from sandfly bites |
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| Visceral Leishmaniasis (kala-azar) splenomegaly patients will |
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