Malaria Lecture Notes Flashcards

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What is a significant blood infection that is important to understand before clinical placement?

Malaria

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What species of malaria is the most dangerous and can cause cerebral malaria?

Plasmodium falciparum

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Why is it difficult to develop a malaria vaccine?

The malaria parasite changes its surface antigens throughout its life cycle.

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Where does the gametocyte form of the malaria parasite develop?

Inside the mosquito

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Where does the malaria parasite travel to after being injected into a human?

The liver

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What are released from the red blood cells in the human host?

Merozoites

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What can you use to help bring down a malaria patient's temperature?

A cool, moist face cloth and/or paracetamol

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What should you encourage a malaria patient to take before they get to the hospital?

Oral rehydration

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How much fluid can someone with a high fever lose in an hour?

Up to two liters

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What treatment might be necessary due to the widespread destruction of red blood cells in severe malaria cases?

Blood transfusions

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What organ may shut down due to the destruction of red blood cells, requiring dialysis?

Kidney

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What level of care might severe malaria cases require?

Intensive Care Unit (ICU) treatment

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Why might a severely ill malaria patient require IV treatment?

Because they are too sick to take oral antiprotozoal treatment

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What type of malaria is particularly drug-resistant in equatorial regions?

Falciparum malaria

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What minimum test should be done when someone returns from overseas with a fever?

A full blood film

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What specific blood films should be done if the person visited a country where malaria is endemic?

Thick and thin blood films for malaria

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What percentage of parasitemia did the young girl in the case study have?

Ten percent

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What surface antigen forms inside the mosquito?

Gametocyte

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What surface antigens are released from the liver?

Sporozoites and merozoites

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What is given to patients with very high fevers, to help bring their temperature down?

Cool, moist face cloth

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What medication is useful to help bring the temperature down?

Paracetamol

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What is crucial to administer to a feverish patient to combat fluid loss?

Oral rehydration

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What neighbor of Australia has drug resistant malaria strains?

Northern Neighbors

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What is the term for a treatment that is not antibiotics for malaria?

Antiprotozoal treatment

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What is the name of the infection referred to when the organism is Falciparin?

Drug resistant malaria