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Mosquito Borne Diseases
 - Dengue
 - Yellow Fever
 - Zika
 - Chikungunya
 - Malaria

- VA Joint
Mosquito Borne Diseases ... BostonChiefs #Mosquito
Mosquito Bite Reactions

• Mosquito saliva-induced type I hypersensitivity
• Skeeter syndrome
• Hypersensitivity to mosquito bites (HMB)
• Well's
Mosquito Bite Reactions ... • Mosquito saliva-induced ... Hypersensitivity to mosquito ... leukemia (CLL) #Mosquito
Filariasis - Life Cycle of Wuchereria bancrofti
1) Mosquito takes a blood meal
2) Adults in lymphatics
3) Adults
bancrofti 1) Mosquito ... blood channels 4) Mosquito ... sheaths, penetrate mosquito's ... Migrate to head and mosquito's
Plasmodium falciparum life cycle
1: Mosquito bite, transmission of sporozoite
2: Liver, Asexual replication. 1 sporozoite → 10-30,000
life cycle 1: Mosquito ... Transmission to mosquito ... that migrates to mosquito
Malaria - Plasmodium Life Cycle
1) Mosquito takes a blood meal (injects sporozoites)
Human Liver Stages
2) Infected liver
Life Cycle 1) Mosquito ... ) Gametocytes Mosquito ... Stages 8) Mosquito
"I MD SOAPS" Infectious Diseases Exposure History

I - Immunization - Vaccination status (age-appropriate, comorbidities, travel, etc)
M
exposure, tick/mosquito
Filariasis - Wuchereria bancrofti
30 yo F from India presents w/ painless immobile firm mass on the
transmitted by mosquitoes ... definitive host while mosquito
Travel History - Clues to Infectious Disease Diagnosis in a Traveler 
 • Where did you
- Mosquito → Malaria
Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
Exaggerated response to mosquito
Filarial Dance Sign on Scrotal Ultrasound (W. bancrofti)

This scrotal US video clip is from a 50
transmitted by mosquitos