BIOL 4105 Chapter : 6 26 12 Babesia Spp
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Drugs for malaria: primaquine is used for p. vivax and ovale only because it only gets the liver stages, does not get the peripheral blood stages. Only gets hypnozoites: artesunate- investigative new drug in usa, cerebral malaria patients who cannot take quinine/ quinidine, assume it is p. falciparum malaria until id"d, rx immediately with either atovaquone-proguanil or mefloquine. Cdc travel recommendations: we have eradicated endemic malaria in the us but still have 1500 cases per year in the us, usually from travelling/ emigration, prophylaxis- don"t skip doses. Before, during, after trip: sleep under netting. Wear clothing that covers: use deet repellants. Prevention in endemic regions: vector reduction, minimize contact with mosquitos. Island of borneo in the 1950s- who used a lot of ddt and killed the wasps who ate the caterpillars that destroyed the thatched roof of the people. Ddt stayed in the bodies of the caterpillar, lizards ate caterpillar, cats would die after eating lizards.
