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1
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common/other names

A. lumbricoides

A

giant intestinal roundworm
Lumbricos teres

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common/other names

E. vermicularis

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pinworm
oxyuris vermicularis
seatworm
social or society worm

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common/other names

American hookworm
American murderer
New world hookworm

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Necator Americanus

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common/other names

A. duodenale
A. braziliense
A. caninum

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duodenale = Old world hookworm
braziliense = cat hookworm
caninum = dog hookworm

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common/other names

  • whipworm
  • pudoc worm
  • threadworm
  • eye worm
  • blinding worm
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  • whipworm = T. trichiura
  • pudoc worm = C. philippinensis
  • threadworm = S. stercoralis
  • eye worm = Loa loa
  • blinding worm = O. volvulus
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common/other names

T. spiralis also known as?

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muscle worm or garbage worm

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common/other names

  • F. hepatica
  • F. gigantica
  • F. buski
  • E. ilocanum

oriental liver fluke / chinese liver fluke also known as?

A
  • hepatica = sheep liver fluke
  • gigantica = giant liver fluke
  • buski = giant intestinal fluke
  • ilocanum = Garrison’s fluke

CLONORCHIS SINENSIS

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common/other names

  • bladder fluke
  • Von siebold’s fluke
  • profile of a man
  • oriental blood fluke
  • oriental lung fluke
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bladder = S. haematobium
Von = H. heterophyes
profile = S. mansoni
blood = S. japonicum
lung = P. westermani

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common/other names

  • beef tapeworm
  • pork tapeworm
  • rat tapeworm
  • dwarf tapeworm
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beef = T. saginata
pork = T. solium
rat = H. diminuta
dwarf = H. nana

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common/other names

  • Dipylidium caninum
  • Diphyllobothrium latum
  • Echinococcus granulosus
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caninum = Dog tapeworm / Double-pored tapeworm
latum = broadfish tapeworm
granulosus = hydatid worm

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infective stages

embryonated egg

mnemonic: HATE

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  • H. nana
  • A. lumbricoides
  • T. trichiura
  • E. vermicularis
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infective stages

  • larva
  • filariform larva
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larva: T. spiralis & C. philippinensis
filariform: Hookworm & S. stercoralis

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infective stages

  • Protozoans (amoeba)
  • T. vaginalis
  • Plasmodium
  • Trypomastigote
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Protozoans = cyst
Vaginalis = trophozoite
plasmodium = sporozoite
trypomastigote = trypanosoma

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nematodes - intestines

  • large
  • small

mnemonic: large - ET small - CASH

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large = Enterobius, Trichuris
small = Capillaria, Ascaris, Strongyloides, Hookworms

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nematodes

heart-to-lung migration

mnemonic: ASH

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Ascaris
Strongyloides
Hookworm

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nematodes - extraintestinal

lymphatics and subcutaneous
muscles
meninges

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lymphatics = filarial
muscles = T. spiralis
meninges = A. cantonensis

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nematodes

triad of infection

mnemonic: unholy three

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Hookworm
Ascaris
Trichuris

18
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nematodes - A. lumbricoides

diagnostic stage
lab diagnosis

MOT?

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diagnostic stage: Egg
lab diagnosis: stool exam

MOT: Ingestion

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nematodes - E. vermicularis

lab diagnosis and MOT

characteristics: autoinfection and external autoifnection

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lab diag: Perianal swab “scotch tape technique”
MOT: ingestion

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nematodes

barrel-shaped w/ bipolar mucus plug that resembles japanese lantern

hint: egg

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T. trichiura

adult resembles a whip

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nematodes

egg is with bipolar mucus plug that are not protruded as T. trichiura egg, guitar peanut-shaped

identify and what is the MOT

male: w/ chitinized spicule
female: have eggs in utero

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C. philippinensis

MOT: Ingestion of freshwater fishes

22
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nematodes

ovoidal, thin-shelled, colorless
morula ball

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Hookworms

adult
N. americanus - S-shaped w/ semilunar cutting plates
A. duodenale - C-shaped w/ 2 pairs of teeth

23
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nematodes

a facultative nematode that causes cochin-china diarrhea

MOT: skin penetration

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S. stercoralis

parasitic: small intestine free-living: soil

24
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vectors of W. bancrofti and B. malayi

give the periodicity

habitat: lymphatics

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bancrofti: Aedes & Anopheles
malayi: Mansonia

NOCTURNAL 10PM-2AM

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# **Loa loa** habitat: vector/s: periodicity: | specimen: **blood**
habitat: **subcutaneous tissue** vectors: **Chrysops & Tabanid** periodicity: **diurnal**
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the vector is similum **(black fly)** and the habitati is subcutaneous tissue. identify. | specimen: ?
O. volvulus | **skin snips/shavings**
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# identify elongated and cylindrical, separate sexes and eggs are non-operculated | MOT: **skin penetration**
Schistosomes
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# identify flat, leaf like, hermaphrodite, eggs are operculated | MOT: **ingestion**
All flukes **except Schistosomes**
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# trematodes enumerate the flukes that has **embryonated eggs** | mnemonic: SHOC
- Schistosoma - Heterophyes - Opistorchis - Clonorchis
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# trematodes enumerate the flukes that has **unembryonated eggs** | mnemonic: PEFF
- Paragonimus - Echinostoma - Fasciola - Fasciolopsis
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# trematodes causes sheep liver rot, eggs resembles F. gigantica and F. buski. leaf-like hermaphrodite with cephalic cone
F. hepatica
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# trematodes infects cattle in the philippines
F. gigantica
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# trematodes most important liver fluke of man | egg: **old-fashioned electric light bulb**
C. sinensis
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# trematodes largest fluke parasitizing man | egg: **Hen's egg shaped**
F. buski
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# trematodes smallest but deadliest fluke of man | MOT: ingestion
H. heterophyes
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# trematodes most romantic parasite of man | what is the lab diagnosis?
Schistosomes | **stool exam, rectal or liver biopsies, and urine**
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# trematodes - **identify each** 1. causes Katayama's disease 2. smallest of the blood flukes 3. vesical blood fluke causing hematuria | what is the specimen needed for S. haematobium?
1. Katayama's disease = **S. japonicum** 2. smallest = **S. mansoni** 3. hematuria = **S. haematobium** | specimen S. haematobium = **24-hr unpreserved urine**
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# trematodes largest tapeworm of man which causes vit. B12 deficiency anemia | specimen: **stool**
D. latum
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# trematodes shortest tapewoem that resembles Taenia egg | DH: **Dog**
E. granulosus

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