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cutaneous leishmaniasis
vector: sandfly
South and Central America |
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cutaneous leishmaniasis
vector: sandly
South & Central American
tx: pentavalent antimonials, pantamidine, amphotericin B |
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mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (severe, disfiguring facial lesions)
vector: sandfly (salivary glands)
South and Central America
tx: pentavalent antimonials, pantamidine, amphotericin B |
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cutaneous leishmaniasis
vector: sandfly
Asia, Africa, Med. Europe, Middle East, S regions of former Soviet Unions
tx: pentavalent antimonials, pantamidine, amphotericin B |
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cutaneous leishmaniasis
vector: sandfly
Asia, Africa, Med. Europe, Middle East, S regions of former Soviet Unions
tx: pentavalent antimonials, pantamidine, amphotericin B |
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visceral leismaniasis (tropism for M0 of liver and spleen)
Asia, Africa, SE ASia
vector: sandfly
tx: pentavalent antimonials, pantamidine, amphotericin B |
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visceral leismaniasis (tropism for M0 of liver and spleen)
Mediterranean basin (esp children)
vector: sandfly
tx: pentavalent antimonials, pantamidine, amphotericin B |
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Definition
visceral leismaniasis (tropism for M0 of liver and spleen)
South and Central America
vector: sandfly
tx: pentavalent antimonials, pantamidine, amphotericin B |
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Term
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Definition
1. promastigote (extracell in sandfly; motile)
2. metacyclic promastigote (motile, resist C' lysis)
3. amastigotes (no flagella, persist and replicate phagolysosome) |
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| trypanosoma brucei gambiense |
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African sleeping sickness
reservoir: domestic pigs
vector: tse tse fly (glossina)
West and Central Africa
cyclic fever pattern and parasitemia
no intracellular amastigote stage |
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| trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense |
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African sleeping sickness
reservoir: cattle and sheep
vector: tse tse fly (glossina)
East Africa (esp hunters, travelers)
cyclic fever pattern and parasitemia
no intracellular amastigote stage |
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Chagas' Dx
insect vector: kissing bugs - reduviid bugs (hindgut)
reservoir: dogs/cats, rodents, armadillos, racooms, oppossums...
tropism for cells of M0 lineage, cardiac m, glial cells |
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Definition
1. epimastigote (memb-assoc flagellum; insect vector)
2. trypomastigote (still motile, extracellular in host, divide via binary fission)
3. no amastigote - no intracellular form |
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higher parasitemia
greater virulence
vector: female anopheline mosquito
Sub-saharan Africa |
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72 hr cycle of reproduction (fever)
infects senescent RBCs
vector: female anopheline mosquito
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vector: female anopheline mosquito
can persist as hypnozoites (recurrent)
SE asia, Indian subcontinent, Central and Latin America |
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vector: female anopheline mosquito
can persist as hypnozoites (recurrent)
SE asia, Indian subcontinent, Central and Latin America |
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3 cycles:
1. sporogonic cycle - in mosquito (sexual)
2. exo-erythrocytic - in hepatocyte (asexual)
3. erythrocytic - in RBC (sexual) |
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