Essential MO - parasites

14 important questions on Essential MO - parasites

What causes smelly diarrhea, malnutrition/weight loss, upper abdominal pain, flatulence: an intestinal infection

Giardia lamblia

What can cause mono, lymphadenopathy, fever, sore throat, rash, and in the immunocompromised: organ disease?

Toxoplasma gondii

What type of malaria is present in a large part of Africa

Plasmodium falciparum
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What causes dysentery and can cause extraintestinal disease too?

Entamoeba histolytica

What amoeba is considered commensal but closely related to one that causes dysentry?

Entamoeba dispar

What causes weight loss, epigastric discomfort, diarrhea in some but can be asymptomatic?

Taenia saginata

What causes fever, eosinophilia, (neuro)cysticercosis, myalgia, and often requires surgery?

Taenia solium

What causes cyst formation in the colon/lungs or other places and causes abdominal pain?

Echinococcus granulosus

What causes katayama syndrome, dermatitis, intestinal and urogenital complaints, and takes 60 days to develop eggs?

Schistosoma haematobium

What causes katayama syndrome, dermatitis, intestinal and urogenital complaints, is also present in place in south-America and takes 30 days to develop eggs?

Schistosoma mansoni

What worm can, when not asymptomatic, cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, respiratory failure, and has an auto-infection cycle

Strongyloides stercoralis

What worm infection can be asymptomatic or cause fever, cough, shortness of breath, malabsorption, growth stunting, diarrhea, abdominal discomfort, or worms in vomit or stool

Ascaris lumbricoides

Which worm infection can be asymptomatic, or can cause nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, growth stunting, and is common in China and Korea

Trichuris trichiura

What worm infection can be asymptomatic or cause growth stunting, blood loss, iron deficiency, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and has the ability to penetrate intact skin

Hookworm

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