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| Ancylostoma dudenale and Necator americanus |
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| Ancylostoma dudenale and Necator americanus |
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| Adult worms live in small intestine, eggs out in feces, rhabditiform to filariform larvae. Filariform larvae penetrate skin, go to LUNGS, couched up then swallowed and develop into adults in small intestine. |
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| Ancylostoma dudenale and Necator americanus |
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| Cause focal minute hemorrhages due to larval entrapment. Also cause skin lesions. |
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| Ancylostoma dudenale and Necator americanus |
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| Partial protective immunity |
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| Adults live in small intestine, eggs pass out of feces, then get ingested in food or water, larvae hatch in stomach penetrate small intestine mucosa. They travel to liver and lungs. Coughed up and swallowed from lungs then adult worms grow in intestines. |
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| Toxic and allergenic metabolites account for neurological-like symptoms |
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| Partial protective immunity |
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| Loffler's syndrome, eosinophilia in lung tissue, is caused by.... |
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| Human pinworm that is a GROUP infection |
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| Adult females migrate out of colon at night and lay eggs on the perianal skin |
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| Appenditicitis and pelvic peritoneal granulomas develop due to ulceration and hemorrhaging of the mucosa. |
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| .... Can cause vulvovaginitis or uti in females |
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| Strongyloides stercoralis |
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| Strongyloides stercoralis |
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| Parthenogneic adult female worms that live in small intestine and produce LARVATED eggs containing rhabditiform larvae. |
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| Strongyloides stercoralis |
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| Trapped larvae cause inflammatory response in lungs. Larvae also cause serpingious, macular eruptions of the skin. |
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| Strongyloides stercoralis and enterobius vermicularis |
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| Strongyloides stercoralis |
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| Hyperinfection occurs in immunosuppressed |
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| Strongyloides stercoralis |
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| Ivermectin is a treatment for.... |
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| Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus |
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| .... Cause Ancylostomiasis |
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| Ancylostoma braziliense and caninum |
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| Ancylostoma braziliense and caninum |
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| Filariform larvae accidentally infect us thinking we are a cat or dog. |
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| Ancylostoma braziliense and caninum |
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| Larvae wander though dermis creating serpingious tunnels. Never enter the bloodstream |
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| Ancylostoma braziliense and caninum |
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| ... Cause cutaneous larva migrans |
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| Domestic, wild, and marine mammals are reservoirs, intermediate and definitive hosts |
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| Adult worms in small intestine insert their posterior ends into mucosa and release larvae directly into bloodstream. Larvae form CYSTS mainly in striated muscle |
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| Humans are infected by eating undercooked, infected meat |
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| .... Cause intensive muscle pain, bilateral peri orbital edema, myocarditis, and CHF within 1-2 weeks |
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| ....cause myositis with pain and swelling of arm and leg, cachexia (wasting syndrome), respiratory paralysis after 2 weeks of infection |
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| Filariasis (Brugia Malayi and Wuchereria bancrofti) |
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| Arthropod-borne nematodes that are found in tropical areas of the world |
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| Filariasis (Brugia Malayi and Wuchereria bancrofti) |
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| Transmitted through mosquitoes as intermediate host, which ingest MICROFILARIAE with blood meal. |
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| Filariasis (Brugia Malayi and Wuchereria bancrofti) |
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| Years of exposure cause elephantiasis of the limbs and warty-like skin |
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| Filariasis (Brugia Malayi and Wuchereria bancrofti) |
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| Adult worms that slow the movement of lymph fluid by producing inflammation in lymphatic vessels |
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| Human are accidentally infected by MICROFILARIAE by mosquito. |
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| Larvae no not fully develop into worms and stay within subcutaneous and lung tissue. |
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| Larvae cause coin-shaped lesions in skin or lungs. |
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| Surgical removal of larvae is treatment for... |
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| Eye worm found in equatorial Africa |
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| Live in subcutaneous tissues of eye and skin. |
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| Deer flies are intermediate hosts and vectors. |
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| Causes Calabar swelling, Edematous, painful, subcutaneous swelling. And crawling sensation in eye, interstitial keratitis, and blindness |
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| Diethylcarbamazine is a treatment for... |
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| Found in equatorial Africa and south and central America |
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| Transmitted by female black flies. The fly ingests MICROFILARIAE, which develop into filariform larvae, which are injected into humans when the fly feeds their blood. |
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| Adult worms provoke a fibroblastic reaction in the subcutaneous tissue. MICROFILARIAE cause severe patholic effects in the eyes when they DIE. |
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| Sxs include intraepithelial granulomas, interstitial keratitis, or optic nerve damage. |
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| Mazzotti test is done to diagnose this parasite. The Mazzotti test uses diethylcarbamazine to produce a popular erythematous reaction in the affected skin along with conjunctival swelling |
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| Diethylcarbamazine is a treatment for... |
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| Humans and monkeys are reservoirs. |
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