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Leishmaniasis Life Cycle
1) Sandfly takes a blood meal (injects promastigote stage into the skin)
Human Stages:
2) Promastigotes
into the skin) Human ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite
Malaria - Plasmodium Life Cycle
1) Mosquito takes a blood meal (injects sporozoites)
Human Liver Stages
2) Infected liver
sporozoites) Human ... Ruptured schizont 5) Human ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite
Cysticercosis - Taenia solium Life Cycle
1) Eggs or gravid proglottids in feces and passed into environment.
2)
cysticerci. 5) Humans ... eggs ingested by human ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite
Babesiosis - Babesia Life Cycle
1) Tick takes a blood meal (sporozoites introduced into host)
2) Trophozie ←→
Transmitted from human-to-human ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite
Loiasis - Loa loa Life Cycle
1) Fly (genus Chrysops) takes a meal (L3 larvae enter bite
enter bite wound) Human ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite
Diphyllobothriasis - Diphyllobothrium Life Cycle
1) Unembryonated eggs passed in feces
2) Eggs embryonate in water
3) Coracidia hatch
small fish 7) Human ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite #tapeworm
Onchocerciasis - Onchocerca volvulus Life Cycle
1) Blackfly (genus Simulium) takes a blood meal (L3 larvae enter
enter bite wound) Human ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite
Schistosoma Life Cycle - Schistosomiasis
1) Eggs shed from infected human: in feces, in urine
2) Eggs hatch
from infected human ... infectiousdiseases #cdc ... #parasite
Supracondylar Elbow Fracture
• Most common elbow fracture in children, peak age 5-7 
• When looking at
Disposition: Type l, DC ... MH/CCF/CWRU EM ... Fracture #Elbow #Humerus
Posterior Elbow Dislocation
The elbow is the second most commonly dislocated major joint in adults and the
olecranon relative to humerus ... Disposition: Simple, DC ... MH/CCF/CWRU EM