Diferencia entre revisiones de «Parasitic diseases»
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*[[Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)]] | *[[Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)]] | ||
*[[Myiasis]] | *[[Myiasis]] | ||
*[[Cysticercosis]] | |||
*[[Loa Loa]] | |||
==[[African Sleeping Sickness]]== | ==[[African Sleeping Sickness]]== | ||
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*Cnidaria larve get trapped, release toxin | *Cnidaria larve get trapped, release toxin | ||
==[[Enterobius vermicularis]]== | ==[[Enterobius vermicularis]]== | ||
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*Metro and excision | *Metro and excision | ||
==[[Trichinosis]]== | ==[[Trichinosis]]== | ||
Revisión del 11:37 1 sep 2014
Background
- Although any organism that "lives in or on another and takes its nourishment from that other organism" is technically a parasite, in common medical parlance "parasitic diseases" refer to infections due to protozoa, helminths, arthropods, or other "macroparasites"
List
African Sleeping Sickness
- Tsetse fly
- Winterbottom's sign: posterior cervical LAD (Gambiense)
Swimmer's Itch
- Cercaria (non-human schistisomes)
- Exposed areas
Seabather's Eruption
- Under bathing suit
- Nematocysts of the larval forms of sea anemones: Edwardsiella lineata
- Thimble jellyfishe: Linuche unguiculata
- Cnidaria larve get trapped, release toxin
Enterobius vermicularis
- Nocturnal perianal itch (pinworm)
Larva Currens
- Thumbprint sign: periumbilical purpura
- Strongyloides stercoralis
Dracunculosis
- Copepods (Cyclops spp)
- Metro and excision
Trichinosis
- Trichinella spiralis
- Splinter hemorrhages
- Pork, polar bear, walrus
M. Opercularis
- Wolly caterpillar
- Train-track hemorrages
- 'Erucism' inflammation around hairs, can be chronic, can cause systemic effects
Cimex lenticularis
- Bedbugs
- Hep B carrier's