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Ascaris lumricoides Trichuris trichiura Enterobius

vermicularis
Habitat Lumen of small Caecum and adjacent Caecum and adjacent
intestine parts parts
Definitive host man man man
Diagnostic stage egg in stool Egg in stool Egg (eggs are found
mainly in perianal skin)
Intermediate host - - -
Infective stage Embryonated eggs Embryonated eggs Egg
Mode of infection Ingestion of green salad Ingestion of green salad Ingestion of eggs in
contaminated with contaminated with contaminated food,
embryonated Ascaris embryonated Trichuris drink, hands and
egg eggs clothes
Morphology -cylidrical Adult : Anterior end of adult
-creamy white in colour -whip like female enterobius :
-thin anterior three fifth -Oesophagus is double
and thick posterior two bulbed.
fifth (cylindrical) -uterus full of eggs.
-caphalic alae.
Female:
-straight posterior end
-vulva at the junction
between thick and thin
parts.

Male :
-coiled posterior end
-contain one long
spicule covered by spiny
retractile sheeth.
Morphology of egg Fertilized egg : -Barrel shaped -plano-convex has 2
-Oval -mucoid plug at each layers covered by outer
-Surrounded by thick pole sticky albuminous layer.
smooth layer covered -Thick shelled -translucent.
by mamillations -Brownish - contain rhabditiform
-Brownish -immature ovum larva.
-immature content
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NIH swab
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Ancylostoma Trichinella spiralis Dracunculus

deudenale medinensis
Habitat Small intestine Small intestine Subcutaneous tissue of
(jejunum) part that come in contact
with water
Definitive host man Man, pig, rodent man
Diagnostic stage Immature egg in stool Encysted larva in Coma shaped larva
striated muscles of
definitive host
Intermediate host - Man, pig, rodent cyclop
Infective stage Infective flariform larva Infective larva Infective larva
Mode of infection Penetration of skin by man become infected Drinking water containing
filariform larva (skin by ingestion of infected cyclop
lesion) improper cooked
infected pork
containing encysted
larva
Morphology Adult : Adult : -
-cylindrical. -cylindrical.
-the anterior end is -oesophagus is cellular
slightly bent dorsally occupying the anterior
(hence the name third.
hookworm)
Female:
Female : -uterus full of larvae.
-pointed posterior end. -vulva at the junction
-vulva at the junction of the anterior fourth
between anterior two and the rest of the
third and posterior body.
third.
Male:
Male : -the posterior end has
-contain bursa a pair of conical
posteriorly with 2 processes.
spicules.
Encysted larva in
Buccal capsule: muscle :
-contain 2 pairs of -ellipsoidal in shape.
ventral teeth. -the long axis of
-one pair of dorsal encysted larva is
plate. parallel to the long axis
of muscles.
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Wuchereria bancrofti
Habitat Lymph node
Definitive host man
Diagnostic stage Microfilaria
Vector Infective female culex
mosquito
Infective stage Infective filiform larva
Mode of Infective female culex
infection mosquito bites man
Morphology Microfilariae:
-long with graceful curves.
-rounded anterior end.
-pointed posterior end.
-no alimentary tract.
-the body full of columns
of nuclei that do not reach
the tail.
Pictures Bancroftian filariasis
Chyluria
Microfilaria of wuchereria
Loa Loa Onchocerca volvulus
Skin and subcutaneous tissue Subcutaneous tissue on
bony parts
man man
Microfilaria Microfilariae
discharged by adults to
surrounding tissue and
moved to form (river
blindness, nodule ,
dermal lesion)
Infective female chrysops Infective simulium
Infective larva Infective larva
Infective female chrysops Infective simulium bites
bites man man
- T.S onchocerca nodule
showing onchocerca
adult :
-microfilariae inside 2
uteri.
- worms are
surrounding by fibrous
tissue
Adult Loa Loa Leopard skin
(depigmentation)
Sowda
(hyperpigmentation)
Calabar swellings
Onchocerca nodule