Activity no.

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Ascaris lumbricoides

Name :_______________________________________________ Score :________________________

Year/Section:__________________________________________ date :_________________________

Guide Questions :

1. Differentiate fertilized from unfertilized ova, and decorticated from embryonated ova.

2. How will you differentiate male from female adult worm ?

3. What are the components of the layers of Ascaris egg shell?

4. How do you get infected with this parasite ?

5 . What preventive measures can be done to control ascariasis?

5. What is Loeffler’s syndrome ?

Instructions:
Draw and label Ascaris egg and adult worm .
 Activity no. 9
Trichuris trichiura

Name :_____________________________________________ Score : ___________________________

Year/section : _______________________________________ Date : ___________________________

Guide Questions :

1.What is the characteristic of a Trichuris egg ? Give the other names associated with the shape of the
ovum ?

2. Differentiate the male from female adult worm

3. How much eggs are laid by female per day ?

4. What laboratory techniques can be used to recover this parasite ?

Instruction :

Draw and label ova and male and female adult worm of Trichuris trichiura
 Activity no. 10
Capillaria philippinensis

Name :________________________________________________ Score : ________________________

Year/ section : _________________________________________ date : _________________________

Guide Questions :

1. What are the similarities between the egg of Capillaria and of Trichuris ?

2. What concentration methods would be best to recover this parasite ?

3. Why is it that in the past , capillariasis leads to death ?

Instruction :

Draw and label the egg , larva , and adult worm of Capillaria philippinensis
 Activity no. 11
Hookworm

Name :________________________________________ Score :______________________________

Yr/Sec : _______________________________________ Date : ______________________________

Guide Questions :

1. How are you going to differentiate the egg of N. americanus from A. duodenale ?

2. Can you get infected by ingesting food or drink contaminated with hookworm egg?

3. What are the difference between N. americanus and A. duodenale as to morphological

characteristics of their buccal capsule and bursa?

4. What are the laboratory techniques in the recovery of hookworm egg and filariform larvae?
 Activity 12
Strongyloides stercoralis

Name:_______________________________________________ Score:__________________________
Year/section :_________________________________________ Date : __________________________

Guide questions :

1. Differentiate the Strongyloides rhabditiform from Filariform larvae .

2. What is the difference between Strongyloides filariform from a Hookworm Filariform ?

3. What are the other possible specimens used in the lab to recover larvae ?

Instruction :

Draw and label the rhabditiform & Filariform larvae of Strongyloides stercoralis
 Activity no. 14
Enterobius vermicularis

Name :_________________________________________ Score : ____________________________

Year/sec: _______________________________________ date :______________________________

Guide Questions :

1. What other parasites can be recovered using the scotch tape swab technique?

2. What are the distinguishing features of an Enterobius egg and adult worm ?

3. How does auto-infection in Enterobiasis occur?

4. What are the means of transmission of Enterobiasis other than auto-infection?

Instruction :
Draw and label the different stages of development of Enterobius vermicularis
 Activity no . 16
Wuchereria bancrofti
Brugia malayi

Name : ___________________________________________ Score : ___________________________

Year/section: ______________________________________ Date : ____________________________

Guide Questions :

1. What is the difference between W.bancrofti & B. malayi microfilariae ?

2. In case of light infection , what laboratory diagnostic technique are you going to perform
when looking for the presence of microfilariae?

3. Name the ideal drugs used to treat Filariasis .

4. What microfilariae is diurnal in periodicity ?

Instruction :

Draw microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti .

 Activity no. 18
Trichinella spiralis

Name : ________________________________________________ Score : ______________________

Year/Section : __________________________________________ date : ________________________

Guide Questions :

1. What are the 3 subspecies of the Trichinella that can infect man ?

2. What is Bachman intradermal test? Describe the positive result.

3. What are the means of transmission of the parasite ?

Instruction :

Draw and label the slide of the encysted larvae of Trichinella spiralis