MCQs in Tropical Medicine

Rob Skelly DTM+H FRCP

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Syndromes

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Hanta virus, discovered in 1982, was isolated following an outbreak of haemorrhagic fever with renal failure in a large number of UN military personnel working in the Crimea. It has more recently been associated with an often fatal pulmonary syndrome.

Plasmodium falciparum is associated with tropical splenomegaly syndrome.

HTLV-1 causes tropical spastic paraparesis and T-cell lymphoma/leukaemia

Fitzhugh Curtis syndrome is chlamydial perihepatitis.