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Diphyllobothriasis - Diphyllobothrium Life Cycle
1) Unembryonated eggs passed in feces
2) Eggs embryonate in water
3) Coracidia hatch
from eggs and are ingested ... crustacean ingested ... fish 7) Human ingests ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite #tapeworm
Leishmaniasis Life Cycle
1) Sandfly takes a blood meal (injects promastigote stage into the skin)
Human Stages:
2) Promastigotes
a blood meal (ingests ... macrophages infected ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite
Blood Disorders - Markers and Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Acute
 • Myloid (AML) - CD13, CD33, CD34,
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... - T-cell - CD7 ... , CD3 Chronic ... - B-cell CD5 ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Clonorchiasis - Clonorchis sinensis Life Cycle
1) Embryonated eggs passed in feces.
2) Eggs ingested by the snail
feces. 2) Eggs ingested ... water fish are ingested ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite #fluke
Cavitary Lung Disease - Differential Diagnosis and Workup Algorithm
Acute / Subacute:
 • Acute Infections: Lung abscess,
Diagnosis and Workup Algorithm ... Infection, Nocardia Chronic ... 12 weeks): • Chronic ... , NTB, Fungal, Parasitic ... Disease #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Echinostomiasis - Echinostoma Life Cycle
1) Unembroynated eggs passed in feces
2) Embryonated eggs in water
3) Miracidia hatch
intermediate host ingested ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite #fluke
Perianal Crohn's Disease - IBD Algorithm

 • 5-40% w perianal fistula
 • ↑ risk if colonic
Disease - IBD Algorithm ... • ↑ risk if colonic ... CD • Initial ... medical therapy • Chronic ... IBDAlgorithm #IBD #Algorithm
Causes of Thrombocytosis - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Spurious:
 • Artifact (redo CBC)
Autonomous:
 • Essential thrombocytosis
 • Polycythemia
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Artifact (redo CBC ... Polycythemia Vera • Chronic ... : • Acute or Chronic ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Causes of Encephalopathy - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hyperacute:
 - Primary Neurologic: Vascular (IS, ICH), Seizure, Migraine, Trauma
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Infectious (fungal, TB, parasitic ... - Systemic: Chronic ... Autoimmune, OSA Chronic ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Cysticercosis - Taenia solium Life Cycle
1) Eggs or gravid proglottids in feces and passed into environment.
2)
gravid proglottids ingested ... Embryonated eggs ingested ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite