Trypanosomes US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
Master Trypanosomes 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.
Trypanosomes Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: Which stain is used to visualize Trypanosomes?_____
Answer: Giemsa
Flashcard 2: Which subspecies of Trypanosoma brucei is from East Africa?_____
Answer: Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense
Flashcard 3: Motile, flagellated trypanosomes on blood smear are indicative of _____
Answer: Trypanosoma brucei
Flashcard 4: _____ is a CNS protozoal infection caused by Trypanosoma brucei subspecies that is diagnosed by a blood smear.
Answer: African Sleeping Sickness
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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