Leishmania species US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
Master Leishmania species with OnCourse flashcards. These spaced repetition flashcards are designed for medical students preparing for NEET PG, USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2, MBBS exams, and other medical licensing examinations.
Leishmania species Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: Which strain of Leishmaniasis can present with skin hyperpigmentation?_____
Answer: Leishmania donovani
Flashcard 2: Outside of macrophages, Leishmania spp. are _____
Answer: flagellated (flagellated or non-flagellated)
Flashcard 3: Which protozoa causes visceral leishmaniasis?_____
Answer: Leishmania donovani
Flashcard 4: What is the non-flagellated (non-motile) form of Leishmania?_____
Answer: Amastigote
Flashcard 5: Trichomonas vaginalis
Answer:
Extra: wet mount vaginitis sexual
Flashcard 6: trichomonas vaginitis
Answer:
Extra: foul-smelling, greenish vaginal discharge, itching and burning mobile, pear-shaped trophozoites on wet mount metronidazole
Flashcard 7: Trypanasoma cruzi
Answer:
Extra: blood smear Chagas disease Reduviid big (aka kissing or assassin bug) Central/South America
Flashcard 8: Chagas disease
Answer: Trypanasoma cruzi
Extra: dilated cardiomyopathy, megacolon, megaesophagus nifurtimox
Flashcard 9: Trypanasoma brucei/gambiense/rhodesiense
Answer:
Extra: blood smear African sleeping sickness tsetse fly
Flashcard 10: Naegleria fowleri
Answer:
Extra: ameobas in CSF rapidly fatal meningoencephalitis amphotericin B swimming in freshwater lakes
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