Here is a crossword challenge directly linked to the previous blog on Chaga’s Disease.
I hope you enjoy it and as always feel free to use it as an educational tool for those of you looking to challenge your class.
The solved puzzle will follow.
Across
2) Chronic forms of Chaga’s Disease will require life-long __ treatments.
5) Trypanosoma cruzi is endemic in South & Central …
7) Trypanosome sp. responsible for South American Trypanosomiasis
8) Chronic infections with Trypanosomsa cruzi are best detected with tests that are
10) The screening for Trypanosoma cruzi infections is not routinely done in the general …
11) Advanced chronic cases of Chaga’s Disease can lead to a deadly …
13) Vinchucas will tend to feed around the …
14) Trypanosoma cruzi is a flagellate classified as a
15) Though uncommon, an acute form of Chaga’s Disease can occur that presents as acute …
17) Epimastigotes are found in this area of the vector’s body …
18) This disease name is given to South American trypanosomiasis
20) Vinchucas are commonly found in dwellings made of straw, palm thatch or …
21) A reaction from the trypanosomes infecting the host is called this sign …
22) Acute forms can be treated successfully with nifurtimox or …
Down
1) Vinchucas are members of this group of bugs
3) The proliferative from in the vector of Trypanosoma cruzi is the …
4) The most common name given in Latin American countries to Raduvid bugs is
6) The infective from or Trypanosoma cruzi is the metacyclic …
9) Vinchucas feed at night and thus are described as …
11) Trypomastigotes are most likely to be seen in this stage of a Chaga’s Disease infection
12) The Trypanosoma cruzi is transmitted via triatomine bugs …
14) The metacyclic trypomastigote is found in this part of the vector’s body …
16) Chagas disease many times takes a clinical course that is described as …
19) The proliferative form n host cells of Trypanosoma cruzi is the …
20) Vinchucas and other triatomine bugs feed on the blood of …
23) PCR techniques are less useful in the detection of chronic Chaga’s due to parasitic loads that are …