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Trichuris Trichuris
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No clinical sympoms, but chronic infect shows bloody stools, anemia from hemorrage, seconadary bacteria infections.
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Trichinella spiralis
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Three phases of symptoms; mild -- severe --- moderate usually abate after 30 days; skin and seriological tests, but early stage false negative, has to be two to three weeks old to get a wheal. live larvae in muscle biospy
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strongyloides stercoralis
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rare feces diagnosis; Ground itch cutaneous phase; travese skin (creeping eruption) Pulmonary phase: migrate through the lungs, can see larvae in sputum, intenstinal infection- abdominal pain etc; identification from rhaditofmr larvae in feces; serological tests
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Hookworms
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Cutaneous, Pulmonary and Intestinal Phases; Most serious with intestinal infection; geophagy; pulmonary infection
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Cutaneous larval migrans
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feet, arms, face most common site of infection; red itchy paules and the migratory path of th eburrowing larva cause slightly red elvated ridges, can persist for weeks or even months
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Ascaris Lumbricoides
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Mostly symptomless; However ashtma, insoma, rash; migrating larvae are the problem; can be obstructive in bile duct, liver etc
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Anisakis spp
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ii. Pathology is caused by host inflammatory response. Larvae in humans bores into throat or gastric mucus, swelling of the digestive tract walls may cause obstruction or peritonitis
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Wuchereria bancrofti
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Elephantitis, swelling over lymph nodes; etc
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Brugio malayi
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lymphone, cylure (lymp and fat in urin; elephantitis (not scrotal area); accruate id of microfilari in blood; THICK BLOOD SMEAR
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Onchocerca volvuls
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microfilaira cause skin discolartion, puctate- keratitis whitish corneal opacity, caused by when parasit is migrating; detection is microfilaria in skin snip, not found in blood
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Loa Loa
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Infections are mild, psych ward; sometimes get a granuloma formation below conjunctiva; visualization of worms microfiliari may be detectable in blood in day time
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Dracunuclus medinesis
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identify worms in blister; no test
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