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MICRO4
VIRAL Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Diseases
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| HEMORRHAGIC VIRUS TYPES | HEMMORHAGIC VIRUS TYPES |
| What does yello fever cause? | Fever, chills, jaundice (turn yellow) |
| What is the vector for yellow fever? | mosquito, |
| PARASITIC INFECTION | PARASITIC INFECTION |
| TAXOPLASMOSIS | TAXOPLASMOSIS |
| What is the organisms associated with taxoplasmossi? | Taxoplasma gondii |
| How common is it in u.s.? Symptoms associated? | Very common, but no symptoms because our immune system clears it |
| So, where do we worry about this condition? | AIDS patients and congenital infectiosn |
| How do you acquire it? | Eat cat feces, raw meat, contaminated water, fomites, organ transplants |
| How do you diagnose it? | TORCH panel |
| How do you treat it? | Only treat REALLY bad people, because remember others have an immune system that clears it |
| MALARIA | MALARIA |
| What species? Where? | Plasmodium; in RBC |
| Which is malignant? | Falciparum |
| Disease conditions associate? | Paroxysms: daily evening fever, anemia, blood clot-->tissue damage |
| What is the vector? Life cycle of it? | Mosquito; multi stage life cycle |
| How common in U.S.? | Rare, common in tropical areas |
| How do you diagnose it? | Blood smear and look for stages of life cycle; also sigment smear |