You Can’t Sit Still with Beaver Fever

Presented By:

Ruth ArmstrongDeanett ShawChristine Spanutius

Our Patient:

• Anthropologist• Just returned from

New Mexico• Diarrhea• Abdominal Pain• Fever• Protozoal Cysts• Motile Trophozites

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?

The Suspects:

• Giardia lamblia

• Dientamoeba fragilis

• Salmonella

• Cryptosporidium parvum

• Blastocystis hominis

Our Bug: Giardia lamblia

Anatomy of Giardia:

Contraction of Giardia:

Contraction of Giardia:

*note beaver swimming in background

Treatment:

• Tnidazole 2 gm orally

• Nitazoxanicde 500 mg orally

• Flagyl 250 mg orally

Preventing Re-infection:

• Boil all drinking water for at least 1 minute, then refrigerate when available

• Use a filtering system

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• If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a big surprise -- if you drink contaminated water.

THE END