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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 ... crustaceans 5) Infected ... crustacean ingested ... Diphyllobothrium #LifeCycle ... #diagnosis #pathophysiology
Approach to the Hypercoagulable State
Arterial thromboembolism
→ Cardiac rhythm monitoring, Echocardiogram, Vascular imaging
→ Test for APS, particularly
(Inherited thrombophilias ... - No other workup ... years of age → Inherited ... Hypercoagulable #Workup ... hematology #diagnosis #algorithm
Leishmaniasis Life Cycle
1) Sandfly takes a blood meal (injects promastigote stage into the skin)
Human Stages:
2) Promastigotes
ingests macrophages infected ... Leishmaniasis #LifeCycle ... #diagnosis #pathophysiology
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 ... Clonorchis #sinensis #LifeCycle ... #diagnosis #pathophysiology
Malaria - Plasmodium Life Cycle
1) Mosquito takes a blood meal (injects sporozoites)
Human Liver Stages
2) Infected liver
Liver Stages 2) Infected ... Malaria #Plasmodium #lifecycle ... #diagnosis #pathophysiology
Echinostomiasis - Echinostoma Life Cycle
1) Unembroynated eggs passed in feces
2) Embryonated eggs in water
3) Miracidia hatch
intermediate host ingested ... #Echinostoma #LifeCycle ... #diagnosis #pathophysiology
African Trypanosomiasis - Trypanosoma brucei gambiense & Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense Life Cycle
1) Tsetse fly takes a
Mammalian Stages: 2) Injected ... trypomastigotes are ingested ... #Trypanosoma #LifeCycle ... #diagnosis #pathophysiology
Cysticercosis - Taenia solium Life Cycle
1) Eggs or gravid proglottids in feces and passed into environment.
2)
gravid proglottids ingested ... Embryonated eggs ingested ... #TaeniaSolium #LifeCycle ... #diagnosis #pathophysiology
Trypanosomiasis - Trypanosoma cruzi Life Cycle
1) Triatomine bug takes a blood meal (passes metacyclic trypomastigotes in
other cells of infected ... trypomastigotes ingested ... TrypanosomaCruzi #Tcruzi #LifeCycle ... #diagnosis #pathophysiology
Capillariasis - Capillaria philippinensis Life Cycle
1) Unembryonated, thick-shelled eggs passed in feces.
2) Eggs become embryonated in
or undercooked infected ... philippinensis #LifeCycle ... #diagnosis #pathophysiology