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Safe Living After Transplant - Water Safety
Abrasions:
• If incurred during swimming in ocean or fresh water,
incurred during swimming ... Activities: • Avoid swimming ... #differential #diagnosis
Instructions on how to perform the swinging light test to detect a relative afferent pupillary defect.

http://www.cmaj.ca/content/early/2015/01/05/cmaj.140685

Normal
to perform the swinging ... .140685 Normal swinging ... to perform the swinging ... #Diagnosis #PhysicalExam ... Pupillary #Defect #Swinging
Leptospirosis
Pathogen: Leptospira (interrogans, kirschneri, noguchii)
Risk Factors:
 • Occupational exposure - Farmers, ranchers, trappers, veterinarians
 • Recreational
activities - Freshwater swimming ... disease ARDS Diagnosis ... #microbiology #diagnosis
Echinostomiasis - Echinostoma Life Cycle
1) Unembroynated eggs passed in feces
2) Embryonated eggs in water
3) Miracidia hatch
host 5) Free-swimming ... Echinostoma #LifeCycle #diagnosis
Clonorchiasis - Clonorchis sinensis Life Cycle
1) Embryonated eggs passed in feces.
2) Eggs ingested by the snail
Cercariae 3) Free-swimming ... sinensis #LifeCycle #diagnosis
Fever in the Returning Traveler - History
Exposure History:
 • Street foods / Local water: entenc fever,
water activities: swimming ... Traveler #History #diagnosis
Travel History - Clues to Infectious Disease Diagnosis in a Traveler 
 • Where did you
Infectious Disease Diagnosis ... Rafting, kayaking. swimming ... #differential #Diagnosis
Anisakiasis - Life Cycle
Anisakis, Pseudoterranova, Contracecum
1) Definitive hosts excrete unembryonated eggs in
2a) Eggs become embryonated in
ensheathed, free-swimming ... forms. 3) Free-swimming ... Diagnosis of anisakiasis ... #LifeCycle #diagnosis
Schistosoma Life Cycle - Schistosomiasis
1) Eggs shed from infected human: in feces, in urine
2) Eggs hatch
generations) 5) Free-swimming ... Schistosomiasis #diagnosis
Relative Afferent Pupillary Defect

This maneuver of intermittent light stimulus is called the alternating light test or
light test or "swinging-flashlight ... very sensitive diagnostic