NBME 22 Answers : Block 2 : #23 = A 32-year-old woman comes to the physician because ...

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A 32-year-old woman comes to the physician because ...

Reduviid bug

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submitted by usmleuser007(126),

Arthropod infections

a. Trypansoma cruzi = reduviid bug

b. Trypanosoma brucei = Tsetse fly

c. Malaria = Anopheles mosquito

d. Flavivirus Group (West Nile Virus, Dengue) = Aedes mosquito

e. Microfilariae = black fly

f. Leishmania braziliensis = sand fly

g. Borrelia & Babesia =Ixodes tick

h. Rickebsia rickebsii & Francisella tularensis = Dermacentor tick

i. Rikebsia prowazekii = lice

j. Loa loa (African eye worm) = deer fly

k. Wuchereria bancrofti = mosquitoes

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submitted by biliarytree220(6),

Chagas disease, trypomastigote on blood smear; cardiomyopathy, predominantly found in South America

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submitted by usmleuser007(126),

16. Arthropod infections 
    a. Trypansoma cruzi = reduviid bug
    b. Trypanosoma brucei = Tsetse fly
    c. Malaria = Anopheles mosquito
    d. Flavivirus Group (West Nile Virus, Dengue) = Aedes mosquito
    e. Microfilariae = black fly
    f. Leishmania braziliensis = sand fly 
    g. Borrelia & Babesia =Ixodes tick 
    h. Rickebsia rickebsii & Francisella tularensis = Dermacentor tick 
    i. Rikebsia prowazekii = lice 
    j. Loa loa (African eye worm) = deer fly 
    k. Wuchereria bancrofti = mosquitoes

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submitted by sirminalot(-49),

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