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Screening test for high infection π |
Montenegro Skin Test |
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Presence of single free flagellum from a kinetoplast at anterior end π |
Promastigote |
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Fuadin is a treatment for which disease of hemoflagellate? π |
Effective treatment for cutaneous Leishmaniasis |
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Form with a posterior nucleus π |
Amastigote |
epmA |
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Presence of single free flagella from kinetoplast at the anterior end π |
Promastigote |
ePma |
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Form typically recorded in the midgut of the sandfly |
Promastigote |
ePiM |
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Parasite that resides at spleen and liver π |
Leishmania donovani |
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Pathological condition that refers to each of the Leishmania spp. |
1. Leishmania tropica - cutaneous Leishmaniasis 2. Leishmania braziliensis - muco-cutaneous Leishmaniasis 3. Leishmania denovani - visceral Leishmaniasis (Dumdum fever/ Black Fever/ Kala azar) |
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Diagnosis of the Leishmania spp. |
1. L. tropica - tissue sample/culture, fluid aspirates from volcano-like ulcers - Dermal Test/Montenegro Test (screening)
2. L. braziliensis - epithelial and mucosal tissues - Complement Fixation Test / ELIZA Test
3. L. denovani - Lymph node aspirates, Blood, tissue smear - Serologic test |
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L. denovani causes what Pathological conditions? |
Hepatospleenomegaly non-discreet dse w/ fever and chills (similar to Malaria) Kala-azar / Black Fever / Dumdum |
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Vector of L. denovani |
Lutzomyia spp. (similar to L. braziliensis) |
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Collective term for PB and BP; function of each structure |
Parabasal body + Blepharoblast = Kinetoplast PB - cytoplasmic structure |
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L. denovani diagnostic procedures: |
Enzyme Immunoassay Blood Tissue Smear |
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