Infectious and parasitic diseases

Toxoplasmosis: treatment and prevention

The effectiveness of etiotropic drugs for chronic toxoplasmosis is low, as chemotherapy and antibiotics practically do not affect endozoites in tissue cysts. Treatment of toxoplasmosis is indicated only with exacerbation of the process and with miscarriage (treatment is carried out beyond the period of pregnancy).

Toxoplasmosis: diagnosis

Parasitological methods (the investigation of biopsies of lymph nodes and other organs) are not widely used because of their complexity and laboriousness. Specific antibodies of IgM and IgG classes to toxoplasm antigens are detected in repeated serological tests: ELISA, RNGA and RIF (but they are not sufficiently informative in AIDS patients): conduct an intracutaneous test with toxoplasmin (native or recombinant).

Toxoplasmosis: symptoms

Toxoplasmosis meningoencephalitis has nonspecific symptoms of toxoplasmosis: general intoxication, high fever, severe headache, impaired consciousness, convulsions. An important diagnostic value is the investigation of cerebrospinal fluid, in which toxoplasm can be detected.

Toxoplasmosis: causes and pathogenesis

The cause of toxoplasmosis is Toxoplasma gondii (subdomination of Protozoa, type Apicomplecxa, order Coccidia, suborder Eimeriina, family Eimeriidae).

Toxoplasmosis: an overview

Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic protozoal disease characterized by chronic course, polymorphism of clinical manifestations, primary lesion of the central nervous system, eyes, liver and lungs.

Malaria

Malaria (English malaria, French paludisme) is anthroponous transmissible protozoal disease characterized by erythrocyte damage, recurrent cyclic course, fever attacks, hepatosplenomegaly, anemia.

Lambliasis

Giardiasis (giardiasis, English name - Giardiasis) is a protozoal invasion, occurring more often as an asymptomatic carrier, sometimes with functional intestinal disorders.

Treatment of amebiasis with drugs

Treatment of amebiasis occurs with drugs that can be divided into two groups - contact (luminal), affecting the intestinal luminal forms, and systemic tissue amoebicides.

Amoebiasis - Diagnostics

The most simple and reliable method for diagnosing intestinal amebiasis is a microscopic study of feces for the detection of vegetative forms (trophozoites) and cysts. Trophozoites are better to identify in patients with diarrhea, and cysts - in a decorated stool. Primary microscopy examines native preparations from fresh samples of feces with saline.

Amoebiasis - Symptoms

In countries where amoebiasis is widespread (E. Histolytica), non-invasive amebiasis is noted in 90% of infected individuals, that is, they have no symptoms of amebiasis, thus they are asymptomatic carriers of luminal forms of amoebas, and only 10% infected patients develop invasive amebiasis.

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