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Revision as of 14:13, 11 June 2015
Ascariasis Microchapters |
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Case Studies |
Ascariasis causes On the Web |
American Roentgen Ray Society Images of Ascariasis causes |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor-In-Chief: Imtiaz Ahmed Wani, M.B.B.S
Overview
Causes
Genus and Species | Ascaris lumbricoides |
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Common Name | Giant Intestinal Roundworm |
Etiologic Agent of: | Ascariasis |
Infective stage | Embryonated Egg |
Definitive Host | Man |
Portal of Entry | Mouth |
Mode of Transmission | Ingestion of Embryonated egg through contaminated food or water |
Habitat | Small Intestine |
Pathogenic Stage | Adult Larva |
Mode of Attachment | Retention in the mucosal folds using pressure |
Mode of Nutrition | Feeding of Chyme |
Pathogenesis | Larva – pneumonitis, Loeffler’s syndrome;
Adult – Obstruction, Liver abscess, Appendicitis. With Blood-Lung Phase along with Hookworms and Strongyloides stercoralis. |
Laboratory diagnosis | Concentration methods and Direct Fecal Smear: Kato-Katz |
Treatment | Albendazole, Mebendazole, or Pyrantel Pamoate |
Diagnostic Feature - Adult | Female - prominent genital girdle |
Diagnostic Feature - Egg | Coarse mammilated albuminous coating |
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Magnified 128X, this photomicrograph revealed some of the ultrastructural features displayed by a fertile Ascaris lumbricoides egg. A. lumbricoides is the largest nematode (roundworm) parasitizing the human intestine. From Public Health Image Library (PHIL). [1]