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Flashcards by gina_evans0312, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by gina_evans0312
about 12 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Possible Conditions | Cutaneous (skin) or Visceral (lymphoreticular) leishmania |
| Symptoms (Visceral) | Fever, weight loss, enlarged liver |
| Symptoms (Cutaneous) | Skin sores |
| Sandfly | Used for transmission between hosts |
| Forms | Both asexual- amastigote and promastigote forms |
| Life Cycle- Sandfly Bite 1 | Human acquires promastigote form from sandfly bite |
| Life Cycle- Macrophages | Promastigote enters the blood and is taken up by macrophages |
| Life Cycle- Conversion | Inside the macrophage, the PM form converts to amastigote form and multiplies |
| Life Cycle- Entering Tissues | If the amastigote form enters the liver or bone marrow, visceral leishmania occurs |
| Life Cycle- Sandfly Bite 2 | Sandfly takes blood meal and picks up amastigotes from blood |
| Life Cycle- Inside the Sandfly | Converts from AM to PM form and matures |
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