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One week following a visit to the woods along an Eastern seaboard beach,
a 50-year-old woman develops fever, headache, chills, and fatigue. A blood
smear demonstrates protozoa within erythrocytes. Which of the following is
the most likely pathogen?
A. Babesia microti
B. Leishmania donovania
C. Plasmodium falciparum
D. Plasmodium vivax
E. Trypanosoma cruzi
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| mjl1717
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i go with Babesia.
Leishmanisis is from the bite of sand fly is RXed with stibogluconate--it has ubiquitous symptoms.{i think it originate near the middle east]
T. Cruzi Rx with Nifurtimox originate in S. America {cardiomeagaly and megacolon}
someone else take malaria..
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| robin082006
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Plasmodium falciparum: cloroquine for erythrocytic stage (no hepatic stage), quinine for acute attack
Vivax, cloroquine for erythrocytic stage and primaquine for liver stage.
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