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African sleeping sickness
Tsetse fly
Winterbottom's sign: posterior cervical LAD (Gambiense)
Swimmer's itch
Cercaria (non-human schistisomes)
Exposed areas
Seabather's eruption
Under bathing suit
-Nematocysts of the larval forms of sea anemones: Edwardsiella lineata
Thimble jellyfishe: Linuche unguiculata
Cnidaria larve get trapped, release toxin
Cysticercosis
Humans can become intermediate host and then get invasive disease
Enterobius vermicularis
Nocturnal perianal itch (pinworm)
Larva Currens
Thumbprint sign: periumbilical purpura
Strongyloides stercoralis
Dracunculosis
Copepods (Cyclops spp)
Metro and excision
Loa loa
Calabar swelling: localized angioedema
Mature worm migrates across eye
Trichinosis
Trichinella spiralis
Splinter hemorrhages
Pork, polar bear, walrus
M. Opercularis
Wolly caterpillar
Train-track hemorrages
-'Erucism' inflammation around hairs, can be chronic, can cause systemic effects
Cimex lenticularis
Bedbugs
Hep B carrier's
Myiasis
Source
7/2/09 PANI