Tick-Borne Diseases

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  1. 3. Babesiosis can cause splenomegaly, hepatomegaly and ______
  2. 5. What lab technique is used to visualize a babesiosis infection
  3. 8. A patient can be coinfected with lyme disease and anaplasma or babesia, yes or no
  4. 10. This test looks for babesia DNA in blood when blood smears are negative
  5. 12. True or false, there are cases of transplacental transmission of B. microti
  6. 13. The CSF in patients with anaplasmosis is usually ________
  7. 14. The initial reservoir common to lyme, anaplasma, babesia
  8. 17. Mild-moderate babesiosis can be treated with _________ plus atovaquone for 7-10 days.
  9. 18. Anaplasma infected neutrophils can sometimes lodge in the spleen, _____, and bone marrow
  10. 19. A rare pattern found inside erythrocytes is pathognomonic for babesiosis
  11. 23. Name of the vector that transmits lyme, anaplasma and babesia
  12. 24. In at least ______ (number) days of appropriate antibiotics for anaplasmosis, you expect to see some clinical improvement
  13. 25. Which tick borne illness can be transmitted by blood transfusion
  14. 27. Babesia ________ is the most common infecting species in the United States.
  15. 28. The removal of which organ is a major risk factor for developing a severe infection with babesia
  16. 29. In patients with severe disease involving babesiosis, partial or complete exchange transfusion of whole blood or packed red blood cells should be considered if level of parasitemia is greater than _______ (number) percent
  17. 30. Trophozoites are most commonly shaped like what inside erythrocytes
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  1. 1. Name of the organization for which confirmed cases of anaplasmosis must be reported to
  2. 2. Once human host infected, anaplasma resides within this type of blood cell
  3. 4. In anaplasmosis, initial lab findings of leukopenia and thrombocytopenia are sometimes present during the first week of presentation but will be ___________ (freebie: absent vs. present) by the end of the second week
  4. 6. A chemoprophylactic agent that can be placed on skin or clothing to repel ticks
  5. 7. Leukopenia, thrombocytopenia and elevated aminotransferases is characteristic of what tick-borne illness
  6. 9. What antibiotic is commonly used to treat anaplasmosis
  7. 11. True or false, serum antibody titers for anaplasmosis can be used to monitor effective treatment
  8. 15. Sporozoites (part of the babesia life cycle), like to attach to what type of blood cell
  9. 16. Patients with anaplasmosis frequently present with this abnormality in their vital signs
  10. 20. Correct or wrong, asymptomatic patients found to have babesia infection of less than 3 months duration require treatment
  11. 21. Symptomatic anaplasmosis, frequently present with shaking chills, _____, and headaches
  12. 22. Anasplasma is a Gram ______ bacteria
  13. 26. Between early _______ and late fall are when you expect infections with babesiosis