ASCARIS TRICHURIS ANCYLOSTOMA NECATOR STRONGYLOIDES CAPILLARIA ENTEROBIUS TRICHINELLA ANGIOSTRONGYLUS

LUMBRICOIDES TRICHIURA DUODENALE AMERICANUS STERCORALIS PHILIPINENSIS VERMICULARIS SPIRALIS CANTONENSIS

Pin/
Giant Trichina/
Common Old World New World Seat/
Intestinal Whipworm Threadworm Pudoc Worm Muscle Rat Lung Worm
Name Hookworm Hookworm Society
Roundworm Worm
worm
Infective Embryonated Embryonated Filariform (L3) Filariform (L3) Filariform (L3) Filariform (L3) Embryonated
Encysted larva Filariform (L3) Larva
Stage ova ova Larva Larva Larva Larva ova
Diagnostic Rhabditiform (L1) Adult Worm
Ova (fertilized) Ova Ova Ova Ova Ova Encysted larva
Stage Larva (Barber’s Pole)
Glass fish
Intermedia Other Achatina fulica
(Bagsang, Bacto,
te Host vertebrates (Garden Snails)
Ipon, Guppy)
Man/Migratory
Final Host Man Man Man Man Man Man Swine/Man Rat/Man
Birds
Large
Small Intestine
Intestine Small Intestine Small Intestine Small Intestine Small Intestine
(unattached)
(attached- (attached) (attached) (attached) Large Intestine (adult) Lungs of definitive
Habitat Small Intestine
pinfashion) (unattached) Skeletal Muscle host
Warm, Moist, Shady, Sandy Warm, Moist, (larva)
Warm, Moist, Shady, Loamy
(coastal areas) Low Water Levels
Skin Skin Ingestion,
MOT Ingestion Ingestion Skin Penetration Ingestion Ingestion Ingestion
Penetration Penetration Inhalation
Morpholog Longest Rhadbitiform –
Rhabditiform – mouth is as long mouth is as long Larva – Coiled,
y (Larva & Intestinal
as body width as ½ body width, surrounded by
Adult): Nematode
prominent genital nurse cells
Creamy
Whip-like primordium
White/Pink in Thread-like
structure
Female Color Filariform – sheathed, pointed Intestine filled with
Filariform –
(larger, Trilabilated posterior Gravid blood, interwinding
unsheathed, Viviparous
straight anterior Cephalic alae uterus (Barber’s
notched posterior
posterior) Pole)
 Male Bispiculated Adult Esophageal bulb 2 fleshy conical Bean-shaped bursa
(smaller - 2 pairs dental Adult (flask-shape) papillae
curved teeth - semilunar
Smallest
posterior) - C—shaped cutting plates
nematode of
curvature - S-shaped Chitinous
man
- tridigidate curvature Sheathed
dorsal rays - Bidigitate spicule
Facultative
- bristle- dorsal rays
like,simple -fused, barbed
Females
spicule spicule
(parthenogenic)
- slightly larger - graying-
than N. white in color
americanus
Fertilized
Corticated =
Lipoidal
vitelline
membrane,
Glycogen layer, Football/
Guitar/Peanut-
Coarse Lemon
shaped
mamillated shaped
Morpholog Thin-shelled with 2-8 Chinese lantern- Inverted
y (Egg) albuminous blastomeres inside shaped Flattened D-shaped
layer Protruded
bipolar mucus
Fertilized bipolar
plugs
Decorticated = mucus plugs
L,G
Unfertilized
Corticated = G,C
Unfertilized
Decorticated =
G
 Cochin-China
Intestinal
diarrhea,
Capillariasis, Nocturnal Eosinophilic
Anemia, Ground Itch, Intestinal
Loeffler’s Microulceration Pruritis ani, Myocarditis, meningoencephalitis
Disease Rectal Progressive Microcytic Anemia perforations,
Syndrome Borborygmi, Insomia, Trichinosis Headache,
Prolapse Wakana’s disease Ulcerations
Loss of Loss of apetite Impaired memory
(honeycomb
electrolytes
appearance)
Stool. Duodenale
Sx Stool Stool Stool Stool Stool Peri-anal swab Muscle tissue Brain tissue, CSF
aspirate
Muscle biops,
DFS, Harada
Cellulose Tape Bacman’s
DFS, FECT, Kato Katz, Harada Mori, Enterotest, CSF analysis, post-
Dx DFS, FECT, Kato Katz DFS, FECT Swab, DFS intradermal
Mori Baermann culture mortem autopsy
Swellengrebel, test, Beck’s
technique
xenodiagnosis
Mebendazole
(400mg, 3x a
Mebendazole day) and
No recommended
Albendazole Mebendazol and Albendazole,
Mebendazole and Albendazole, Ivermectin with Mebendazole, treatment but
Rx (1 dose), e, Albendazole, Thiobendazole
Pyrantel Pamoate Albendazole Albendazole Anthelmintic drugs
Mebendazole Albendazole Pyrantel (old alternative)
can be given
Pamoate Muscle
extraction
(necrotic tissue)