Background Strongyloides stercoralis is a soil-transmitted helminth that penetrates the skin as a method of infection. This parasitic worm gains nutrients and shelter from its host, while causing malnourishment or harm to the diseased. The infective filariform penetrates the skin from infected soil and migrates to the lungs through the blood stream. In order to mature the filariform larvae are coughed up and swallowed to develop into adults in the intestines. The diagnostic stage is the rhabditiform first stage larvae in feces.…
It is burdensome to know that the baby will grow up to have a disease, possibly fatal, and not…
New research shows that a father can effect prenatal environment due to inflicting stress on the pregnant…
Summary of the Tapeworm Tapeworms can harm human by contaminated food, soil, and water. The immature larva stage of the tapeworm that have migrated out of the intestine by cyst formed in a vital organ like lungs, liver, brain. Tapeworms are helminthes with long, tape like arrangement. They are common for some of human infections. For example, Intestinal infection and Invasive infection are common infections caused by tapeworms.…
Hydrocephalus is the reason that bovine calves are stillborn, or even live through birth only to die quickly afterwards. An overabundance of cerebral spinal fluid can cause the bovine calf’s head to be malformed and dome-shaped. There can be a birth that the bovine calf will live, but symptoms of weakness, depression, spasms, and convulsions will result from cerebral pressure on the brain’s functions. Clinical signs of droopy ears, head and even blindness will be identified along with the inability to suckle.…
Trichomoniasis is a sexually transmitted disease that affects the reproductive system. It is a very common yet curable STD among young sexually active men and women. Although women are more generally affected by this disease, men are able to become infected and pass it on as well. This particular type of STD is caused by a small single-celled parasitic organism called Trichomonas vaginalis. The parasite is oval in shape with four hair like strands protruding out of it which helps to propel the organism.…
During pregnancy, there are many hazardous agents that the mother should avoid in order to prevent a negative outcome on the fetus. These dangerous agents are known as teratogens and behavioral teratogens. A teratogen is an agent, which can cause a birth defect. Teratogens are usually something in the environment that the mother is exposed to during the pregnancy. On the other hand, a behavioral teratogen harms the prenatal brain, affecting the baby's intellectual and emotional functioning.…
The Tapeworm Diet involves the introduction of a tapeworm into the digestive tract so the worm consumes the calories while the host loses weight. One complication of this diet is malnutrition since the tapeworm receives the nutrients from the body--not the host. Another complication is cysts forming from larvae burrowing into the tissues of the body causing immense pain (e.g. eyes, intestines, spinal cord). If the parasite isn’t removed from the body, death can result when the larvae infects the heart. The Lemonade Diet is a fasting diet and can be used to detox the body.…
blood test to determine whether there indeed are parasites in your system. If a women were to be pregnant, the doctors will as well perform various test on the child, which could be ultrasounds to check if there are any fetal abnormalities or antibody test on umbilical cord blood. There are many ways that Toxoplasmosis can be spread or inherited. Most common ways that it is spread is usually through contact with cats or with anything or anyone who already have these parasites.…
Combatting the Zika Virus What may seem like a mild, common, mosquito borne illness can prove to be a tragedy to families. In most adults, the Zika virus simply causes fever, rash, and upsets the digestive tract, like many other illnesses, but when it comes to expectant mothers, it can cause devastating effects. Zika can cause the brain of a fetus to fail to develop, an issue known as microcephaly. This issue makes it impossible for an infant to successfully grow into a fully functioning human, and brings about issues such as learning disabilities and seizures.…
I will be writing an informative paper about parasitic flatworms. The Merriam Webster dictionary defines Parasitism as an animal or plant that lives in or on another animal or plant and gets food or protection from it. S. haematobium is the parasitic disease caused by parasitic worms that could infect the urinary tract or intestines. In those who have been infected for a good amount of time liver damage, kidney failure and infertility may occur. The disease is usually spread by contact, water that contains the parasite or ingestion.…
Lungworm is any of the parasitic worms of the superfamily Metastrongyloidea (phylum Nematoda) that infest the lungs and air passages of a wide range of mammals such as cattle, llamas, alpacas, goats, sheep, deer, donkeys, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, dogs, cats, rats, and even dolphins and whales (which are much less common). Humans are also susceptible to the disease from a variety of different hosts. However, the most common lungworm cases in humans appear to only be common in areas of the world such as Asia, the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean and Africa. Though cases have occurred in oceanic areas of the United States like Hawaii, very few cases have made their way into the mainland of the United States. When diagnosing a human or any animals…
The common name of Taenia solium is known as the pork tapeworm. 3. Matured pork worms are only found in people. “[Larvae] are found in the muscles of the intermediate hosts and in the brain in the case of neurocysticercosis.” (Government of Canada)…
It afflicts 3% to 5% of pregnancies and is a leading cause of maternal mortality; especially in developing countries…
There are several kinds of roundworms which can lead to infections in humans. Their lengths usually vary a lot from 1 millimeter to 1 meter. Most of them are usually eggs and larvae which live in the soils. They usually get into the body through the hands when people touch them or through the mouth.…