This crossword puzzle challenges you about what you may have learned in the last blog “The World is Always Smaller When You Travel”. Or can serve as a recall exercise for those of you that know the subject matter already. Either way it is all about making parasitology as interesting and fun as I think it is.
As always feel free to share the crosswords as teaching or review tools. I find that students are very receptive to them.
I will follow up in the next post with the completed crossword. Until then all the very best and please do keep sending suggestions and compliments. They are very much appreciated!
Trypanosoma brucei Crossword on “The World is Always Smaller When You Travel”
Across
2) Bug vector of chagas disease [RADUVID]
6) Both African Sleeping Sickness organisms on the peripheral smear are virtually …
9) Central nervous system infections will have this positive sign …
10) Inflammation of the brain and surrounding tissues …
11) One of the reservoirs of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense are African …
13) The bite of a Tsetse fly is both itchy and …
14) This stain is used for the detection of most blood parasites including Trypanosoma brucei …
15) Less aggressive subspecies of Trypanosoma brucei …
16) More aggressive subspecies of Trypanosoma brucei …
18) T. brucei stage where the organisms can be found in the lymphatics and peripheral blood …
20) Joint pain …
22) In advanced cases African trypanosomiasis can be detected by testing for the presence of trypanosomes in the …
23) Initial bites of the Tsetse fly will produce skin lesions or the development of a bite …
24) Both of these are important in providing suspicion of and diagnosis of African sleeping sickness, clinical presentation and travel ….
27) In the central nervous system the T. brucei will target these organs in the brain …
Down
1) Reservoirs of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense are humans and …
3) This type of rapid assay is useful in ruling at malaria infections …
4) Trypanosomes induce inflammatory responses of hypothalamic structures that lead to dysfunctions in the circadian-…..
5) European Medicines Agency adopted a positive opinion on the use of this compound for the treatment of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense …
7) There are this many stages used to describe African Sleeping Sickness …
8) Melarsopol is derived from …
9) You can easily distinguish Trypanosoma brucei from Trypanosoma cruzi by the size of their ….
12) Winter Bottom’s Sign in African Sleeping Sickness is the development of posterior cervical …
17) Fexinidazole is administered …
19) Sleeping sickness due to Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense occurs mostly in …
21) Trypanosoma cruzi is endemic in south ….
23) This species of Trypanosoma is the cause of chagas disease …
25) Fly vector of African Sleeping Sickness …
26) Trypanosoma brucei gambiense is the cause of African Sleeping Sickness …