Malaria
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Life cycle
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- sporozoite infectious form
- not get sick for several weeks
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- schizonts: many nuclei, ready to rupture
- in liver, hasn't reached RBC
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- can see on blood smears
- cyclic fever whenever schizonts rupture
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- erythrocyte cycle cause of fever pattern
Symptoms
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Vivax
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- primaquine the one drug that treats vivax, doesn't treat active cell
Malariae
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Falciparum
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Diagnosis
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Protection
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- Duffy antigen on RBC necessary for infection
Treatment
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- plasmodium converts Hgb heme to nontoxic form using heme polymerase
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- mefloquine prophylaxis for travelers. Very vivid dreams SE
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