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It is an old disease…….
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Diagnosis
• Detection of microfilariae
microscopically
• Antigen detection assays
• Molecular Diagnosis
• USG detection of adult worms
• Antibody assays
• Classic diagnosis of
lymphatic
• Still the golden
standard
• The time accord to
the periodicity
• Two methods: finger
prick & whole blood
filtration
• Schistosoma mansoni
• Schistosoma haematobium
• Schistosoma japonikum
• Schistosoma intercalatum
• Schistosoma mekongi
• Intermediate: snail
- Biomphalaria
(S. Mansoni)
- Bulinus
(S.haematobium &
S. Intercalatum)
- Oncomelania
(S. Japonikum)
- Tricula (S. Mekongi)
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Adult
• Clinical methods
• Parasitological methods
• Antibody detection methods
•encysted larvae
•remain viable for several years.
female 2.2 mm
males 1.2 mm
Encystment is completed
in 4 to 5 weeks
• Biopsi of Gastrocnemius
muscle
• After 24 d eating badger
• Roundly coiled
nematode larvae
• Size: 0.775-1.050 x
0.026-0.042 mm
Contaminated soil
is typically found
in (sub)tropical
climates.
4-5 days)
severely itchy cutaneous lesions
creeping eruption
( erythematous linear or serpiginous tract with extreme pruritis)
In other cases, many larvae may penetrate the skin simultaneously &
cause multiple itchy follicular papules and pustules,
VLM:
• larvae invade multiple tissues (liver, heart, lungs, brain, muscle)
• cause various symptoms including fever, anorexia, weight loss,
cough, wheezing, rashes, hepatosplenomegaly, and
hypereosinophilia.
• Death can occur rarely, by severe cardiac, pulmonary or neurologic
involvement.
OLM:
• larvae produce various ophthalmologic lesions
• in some cases have been misdiagnosed as retinoblastoma, resulting
in surgical enucleation.
• often occurs in older children or young adults, with only rare
eosinophilia or visceral manifestations.
• Antiparasitic drugs in
combination with anti
inflammatory medications.
• Albendazole or mebendazole
Diagnosis
• microscopic examination of the liver at
post mortem
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Fasciola hepatica
• Classified as trematodes
• The sheep liver fluke
• Parasite of herbivores that
can infect humans
accidentally
• Size F hepatica : up to 30 x
13 mm
• Reside in the large biliary
ducts of the mammalian
host.
• Worldwide distribution