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(New World Hookworm) Acylostoma Duodenale (Old World Hookworm) Stercoralis

1. The document discusses several types of intestinal parasites including pinworm, whipworm, roundworm, hookworm, strongyloides, and trichinella. 2. It provides details on the life cycles, morphologies, pathogenic effects, and methods of diagnosis for each type of parasite. 3. The major symptoms caused by these parasites include perianal itching, irritation, lack of sleep, nausea, vomiting, vulval irritation, matted colon, bloody stool, bloody mucous, chronic dysentery, abdominal pain, tenderness, pneumonia, muscle pain, fever and edema.

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(New World Hookworm) Acylostoma Duodenale (Old World Hookworm) Stercoralis

1. The document discusses several types of intestinal parasites including pinworm, whipworm, roundworm, hookworm, strongyloides, and trichinella. 2. It provides details on the life cycles, morphologies, pathogenic effects, and methods of diagnosis for each type of parasite. 3. The major symptoms caused by these parasites include perianal itching, irritation, lack of sleep, nausea, vomiting, vulval irritation, matted colon, bloody stool, bloody mucous, chronic dysentery, abdominal pain, tenderness, pneumonia, muscle pain, fever and edema.

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ORGANISMS 1. Enterobius vernicularis -PINWORM -common cause of infection 2.

Trichuris trichiura WHIPWORM

LIFE CYCLE Egg ingested > small intestine > mature > perianal migration

DIAGNOSIS Cellophane tape preparation

MORPHOLOGY Female: creamy white 8-13 mm, sharply pointed tails, Wing-like flaps (cervical alae) Male: Strongly curved posterior Female: 35-50 mm, long anterior two-thirds is long and threadlike Male: 30-45 Eggs: 50 to 55 x 22 to 25 microns

MAJOR PATHOLOGY AND SYMPTOM Perianal itching, irritation, lack of sleep, nausea , vomiting , vulval irritation

3. Ascaris lumbricoides LARGE INTESTINAL ROUNDWORN -second most common cause of infection -largest intestinall nematode -mixed with T. trichiura 4. Necator americanus (New World hookworm) Acylostoma duodenale (Old World Hookworm) 5. Strongyloides stercoralis -The threadworm

Egg ingested > small intestine > penetrate intestinal villi, return to lumen and migrate to cecum -Larvae mature and live in the colon -BARREL-SHAPED EGGS -life span: 4-8 years Complex + heart-lung cycle -egg>small intestine>intestinal wall>bloodstream > liver > lung -lung>alveoli> pharynx (swallowed) > back to reporting

Fecal analysis

Slight infection asymptomatic Heavy infection matted colon, bloody stool , bloody mucous CHRONIC DYSENTERY, abdominal pain and tenderness

Fecal analysis

Pneumonia , Abdominal pain, Vomiting

Penetration by filariform > lymphatic and travel to the lungs> trachea to be swallowed -life-span: 1 year Eggs hatch in MUCOSA

Serpent-like tunneling, enteritis, anemia, weakness and loss og strength due to anemia Skin red, itchy, blotches Lungs pneumonia, Intestines diarrhea, weight loss, eosinohilia

6. Trichinella spiralis

Tissue is digested, larvae are freed, distributed in the body through blood, encysted in mucscles

Muscle biopsy

Female: 3.5mm long Males: 1.5 mm long

Fever, muscle pain, bilateral periorbital edema, increased eosinophil count -Intestinal phase small intestine edema and inflammation, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain -Migrational phase: 104 degrees fever, blurred vision, pleural man -Muscle phase acute, local inflammation with edema pain -swelling due to allergic reaction -produced obstruction and elephantiasis

7. Wuchereria brancrofti Bancrofts Filariasis blood lymphatic dweller

Detection and Identification of microfilaria in stained blood smar. 10 pm

Microfilariae sheathed

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