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Malaria - Plasmodium Life Cycle
1) Mosquito takes a blood meal (injects sporozoites)
Human Liver Stages
2) Infected liver
sporozoites) Human ... Ruptured schizont 5) Human ... Malaria #Plasmodium #lifecycle ... infectiousdiseases #cdc
Babesiosis - Babesia Life Cycle
1) Tick takes a blood meal (sporozoites introduced into host)
2) Trophozie ←→
Transmitted from human-to-human ... Babesiosis #Babesia #LifeCycle ... infectiousdiseases #cdc
Leishmaniasis Life Cycle
1) Sandfly takes a blood meal (injects promastigote stage into the skin)
Human Stages:
2) Promastigotes
into the skin) Human ... Leishmaniasis #LifeCycle ... infectiousdiseases #cdc
Cysticercosis - Taenia solium Life Cycle
1) Eggs or gravid proglottids in feces and passed into environment.
2)
cysticerci. 5) Humans ... eggs ingested by human ... #TaeniaSolium #LifeCycle ... infectiousdiseases #cdc
Diphyllobothriasis - Diphyllobothrium Life Cycle
1) Unembryonated eggs passed in feces
2) Eggs embryonate in water
3) Coracidia hatch
small fish 7) Human ... Diphyllobothrium #LifeCycle ... infectiousdiseases #cdc
Loiasis - Loa loa Life Cycle
1) Fly (genus Chrysops) takes a meal (L3 larvae enter bite
enter bite wound) Human ... Loiasis #Loaloa #LifeCycle ... infectiousdiseases #cdc
Nail Clubbing - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Bronchopulmonary Disease
 • Bronchiectasis
 • Chronic Lung Infection
 • Lung Cancer
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Disease) Other • Human ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm ... #causes
Onchocerciasis - Onchocerca volvulus Life Cycle
1) Blackfly (genus Simulium) takes a blood meal (L3 larvae enter
enter bite wound) Human ... OnchocercaVolvulus #LifeCycle ... infectiousdiseases #cdc
Causes of Thrombocytosis - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Spurious:
 • Artifact (redo CBC)
Autonomous:
 • Essential thrombocytosis
 • Polycythemia
Causes of Thrombocytosis ... Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Artifact (redo CBC ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm ... #Causes #Hematology
Schistosoma Life Cycle - Schistosomiasis
1) Eggs shed from infected human: in feces, in urine
2) Eggs hatch
from infected human ... #Schistosoma #LifeCycle ... infectiousdiseases #cdc