Study Set Content:
Naegleria spp can penetrate the mucosa and symptoms include extreme headache. The drug of choice is Trimethoprim/ sulfamethoxazole
False- AMPHOTERICIN B
Ancyclostoma duodenale- hookworm skin penetration of the eggs treated with ivermectin
False- ALBENDAZOLE
Uncooked fish tapeworm can have the symptoms of diarrhea and lung obstruction.
True
Phthirus pubis is an ectoparasite usually transmitted via sexual contact.
True
L. tropica- old world leishmaniasis is transmitted through the vector sandfly and treated with Iodoquinol
False- AMPHOTERICIN
Toxoplasmosis is transmitted through cat feces and can cause elephantiasis.
False- ENCEPHALITIS
E. hystolica can cause a “flask shaped ulcer in the colon and hepatomegaly in the liver.”
True
Blood protozoan with causing black water fever treated with chlroquine.
True
Babesia involves two host, a rodent and ixodes tick, for severe cases drug of choice is Atovaquone and azithromycin.
True
Brain protozoan infections that colonize nasal tissues prior traveling to olfactory nerves is caused by Naegieria fowleri and balantdium.
False- BALAMUTHIA MANDRILLARIS
Plasmodium spp are usually transmitted through the vector Tsetse fly and examined through a blood smear
False- ANOPHELES MOSQUITO
Amoebic Dysentery-
Entamoeba histolytica
Chagas disease-
trypanosoma cruzi
Beef tapeworm
taenia saginata
Hookworm-
nicator americanus
. African sleeping sickness-
trypanosoma brucei
Enterobiasis
Enterobius vermicularis
Ascariasis
ascaris lumbricaides
Autoinfection-
strongyloides stercoralis
Trichinosis
- trichinella spiralis
