Disease/ Organs Most affected: Quartan or Malarial Malaria – 72 hour fever spikes, or fiver is every 3 days PLASMODIUM MALARIAE (“warlord with ‘mal-odor’ symbols”) Treatment: chloroquine PO4 (“warlord next to African queen wearing colored garb”) then primaquine toĮliminate the liver stage (“primal queen behind the color queen”) Liver Stage: persistent hypnozoites are seen and can relapse (“warlord is using hypnosis and standing next to the On blood smears, enlarged host cells and ameboid trophozoites are seen for P. Diagnosis: Blood stain and Giemsa stain to see parasites in RBCs (“blood smeared chest of gems”) – for P. (“Warlord’s pendulum swing’s ovals are alternating red and black for fever days”) Disease/ Organs Most affected: Benign Tertian Malaria – presents with 48 hour, or every other day fever spikes PLASMODIUM VIVAX AND OVALE (“Warlord with Ax and Ovale shield”) Protozoan Apicomplexa: PLASMODIUM SPECIES “The Queens and Warlords of Plasmodium” Treatment: in addition to stibogluconate sodium, also amphotericin B (“frogs/ amphibians”) Diagnosis: amastigotes in macrophages in bone marrow, liver, and spleen Weakness, pancytopenia (“pan of food that look like lysed RBC and platelets”), and hepatosplenomegaly Disease/ Organs Most affected: Visceral Leishmaniasis – presents with scattered black spots, aka theīlack fever or kala-azer (“Man in scene with black spots all over”) other symptoms include fever,
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Disease/ Organs Most affected: Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (oriental sore, etc) – ulcerating skin sore Lesions that restructures the face (“zombie character wearing clothes and belt of the Brazilian flag”) Disease/ Organs Most affected: Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis – presents with severe disseminated Treatment: stibogluconate sodium (“T-BOne steak”) Diagnosis: Amastigotes in macrophages in lesions (“macrophage cages with goats goats have amastigote. Reservoirs: urban – humans rural – rodents and wild animals Vector/Form/Transmission: sandfly bite (“flies swarming zombie in desert Treatment: Clindamycin or azithromycin (“macrolide crows on queen’s shoulders”) and Inoculation small rings of Maltese cross formation from tetrad of trophozoites in RBC Diagnosis: Giemsa stain of thin blood smear (“blood-red carpet across the floor”) or hamster Transmission: Ixodes Tick, a deer tick (“two shields with Tick coat of arms and antlers hanging inīack Robin of Ixodes from Borrelia video has been captured”) Sickle cell disease (“queen vampire holding a sickle”) or asplenia (“Robin’s tunic has a spleen. Lyme/ Borrelia infection location is in same range as Lyme disease – NE, N Central, California,Īnd NW US (“Maltese cross on floor pointing NE”) higher risk of severe disease in patients with Yellow underneath shattered red windows”), and irregularly cycling fevers (“Robin of IxodesĬaptive and sweating with jagged shirt hem”) is malaria-like, but is often a co-infection with
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Stain-glass windows that are shattered”), hemoglobinuria, resulting jaundice (“vampire babe in (“scene is set with vampires”) symptoms of hemolytic anemia (“red Disease/ Organs Most affected: Babesiosis – causes blood related Species: in humans – Babesia microti, WA1, & MO1 strains Protozoan Apicomplexa found in Blood/Tissue Treatment: Benzimidazole, **Nifurtimax (“girl friend wearing knee-high furry moccasins for Diagnosis: Blood films with trypomastigotes (“gas line leaking, leaving blood-red smear”) Reservoirs: cats, dogs, armadillos, opossums, poverty-housing Trypanosomes can therefore be seen within cardiac myocytes on heart biopsy (“red bug on Organism can burrow into the endocardium (“mole tunneling”) Genus passes trypomastigote (flagellated form) in feces – scratching at infection site implants