Across
- 3. don't eat raw crayfish
- 5. Intraventricular cysts should usually be treated by surgical removal
- 6. can penetrate the human skin causing a creeping eruption
- 7. megaesophagus
- 9. eosinophilic meningitis; ingestion of raw or undercooked infected snails/slugs
- 10. free living amoeba; agent of granulomatous amebic encephalitis
- 12. large roundworm; most common helminthic infection globally
- 14. not effective for COVID-19 but first line for Strongyloides stercoralis
- 16. egg
Down
- 1. hyperinfection syndrome if corticosteroid therapy or other immunosuppressants started
- 2. PAIR is a treatment option for these cysts
- 4. raccoon feces
- 7. transmits sleeping sickness
- 8. first stage of T. b. gambiense therapy
- 11. treatment of this infection acquired from snails
- 13. soil roundworm; treated with 3 days albendazole
- 15. Freezing fish or cooking to 145°F will kill this parasite