You Cant Sit Still with Beaver Fever

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You Cant Sit Still with Beaver Fever
Presented By Ruth ArmstrongDeanett
ShawChristine Spanutius
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Our Patient

• Anthropologist
• Just returned from New Mexico
• Diarrhea
• Abdominal Pain
• Fever
• Protozoal Cysts
• Motile Trophozites

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Questions We Would Ask

• How long has he been experiencing diarrhea?
• Are his stools bloody?
• Does he have any other symptoms?
• Was it possible he drank contaminated water?
• Where his living conditions in New Mexico
  sanitary?
• Has he been around others with similar symptoms?
• Is he taking medications?

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The Suspects

• Giardia lamblia
• Dientamoeba fragilis
• Salmonella
• Cryptosporidium parvum
• Blastocystis hominis

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Our Bug Giardia lamblia
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Anatomy of Giardia
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Contraction of Giardia
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Contraction of Giardia
note beaver swimming in background
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Treatment

• Tnidazole 2 gm orally
• Nitazoxanicde 500 mg orally
• Flagyl 250 mg orally

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Preventing Re-infection

• Boil all drinking water for at least 1 minute,
  then refrigerate when available
• Use a filtering system

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• THE END