Entamoeba histolytica cyst

- Most common parasite in the L. intestines.

- Eats tissues that causes blood in stools
- ID thru latex agglutination/fluorescent antibody test
- Trtmnt: Metronidazole + iodoquinol

Trichomonas vaginalis smear

- Vaginal parasites
- Move using undulating membrane
- No cyst stage, SDT direct contamination
- Trtmnt: Metronidazole

Entamoeba histolytica trophozoite

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Balantidium coli cyst

- largest protozoan infecting humans
- reservoir host are pigs/swines
- causes dysentery
Balantidium coli trophozoite

Giardia lamblia/intestinalis vegetative

- the only protozoa at duodenum and jejunum
- divides by binary fission.
- blocks food absorption
- 1st organism observed by Anton Van
- Ingestion of cyst with flagella
- Steatorrhea: fatty stools
- Excessive flatus
- Gardiasis
- String test

Plasmodium falciparum ring forms

- Deadliest malaria
- Merozoites in RBC then lyse, then DEAD
- s/s are seen after the lysing of RBC
- tertian malaria 36-42 hrs.

Plasmodium falciparum thick blood smear

Enterobius vermicularis ova
- Pinworms.
- Adults in intestines, female in anus to deposit eggs, causes
itching in the butt.
- Ingestion of eggs.
- Graham’s sticky-tape test.

Enterobius vermiclaris female

Enterobius vermiclaris female

Ascaris lumbricoides female c.s.

- Largest roundworm in the intestines
- Dioecious with sexual dimorphism
- Male is smaller, curved at the end
- Lives in the intestines, feed at semidigested food
- Eggs are ingested-eggs hatch in the s. intestines-burrows out
and goes to blood, carried to the lungs to grow-coughed and
swallowed again-returns to the s. intestines as adults
- Diag: adult worms on geces
Ascaris lumbricoides male c.s.

Ascaris lumbricoides ova (unfertilized)

Ascaris lumbricoides ova (fertilized)

Trichuris trichiura ova

- Intestinal nematodes
Trichuris trichiura male

Trichuris trichiura female

Trichnella spiralis encysted larvae

- Ingestion of encysted larva in poorly cooked pork
- Eggs are freed from cyst in digestive tract-mature to adults in
s. intestines and sexually reproduce-eggs develop to female
and births larva-larva enters lymph nodes or blood vessel-
migrate thruout the body.
- Musce biopsy

Ancylostoma caninum male

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Taenia saginata ova

Taenia saginata mature segment

- i. host is cow
- d. host is humans
- D: beef tapeworm
- s/s: abpain, bloated

Taenia saginata mature proglottid c.s.

Taenia solium cystecercus

- i. host is pig or human
- d. host is humans found in brain
- ingestion of eggs or cystecerci
- s/s: epilepsy, stroke
- D: neurocysticercosis
Taenia solium cystecercus pork

Diphyllobotrium latum gravid segment

- Broad fish tapewporm

Diphyllobotrium latum mature segment

Fasciola haepatica
- Sheep liver fluke
Paragonimus westermani egg

Paragonimus westermani adult in c.s. of lung

- i. host is fresh water snail and crayfish
- d. host is humans
- s/s acute: abpain, diarrhea, urticarial, chest pain
- chronic: pulmonary s/s, water in lungs, SOB, cough with
blood
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Schistosoma japunicum ova

Schistosoma japunicum miracidium

Schistosoma japunicum cercariae
- i. host is freshwater snails
- d. host: Humans
- passed thru humans, cercaria burrows into the skin and goes
to the circulatory system
- adult flukes is at pelvis, abdomen, common in liver
- katayama disease
- s/s: serum like sickness, hepatoplenosmegaly, eosinophilia,
dysentery, high fever and chills,
- no encystment.

Schistosoma japunicum male

Schistosoma japunicum female

Pediculus humanus capitis male

Pediculus humanus capitis female

Culex female adult

Culex male adult