3.5 - HUMAN HOOKWORMS AND STRONGYLOIDES Flashcards
- blood sucking nematodes causing anemia
- attaches to the intestinal mucosa
- soil-transmitted helminthes
human hookworms
Ancylostoma duodenale
old world hookworm
Necator americanus
new world hookworm
host
man
habitat
small intestine
MOT
skin penetration
infective stage
L3-Filariform
diagnostic stage
egg
- 56-60 um in length by 36-40 um wide
- Bluntly round ends
- Single thin transparent hyaline shell
- 2-8 cell stage of division
eggs
Hookworm eggs are most commonly described as
thin shelled eggs
young larva
Rhabditiform
- larger than the threadworm (strongyloides)
- more attenuated posteriorly
- longer buccal cavity
- genital primordium is smaller
rhabditiform larvae
Eggs of strongyloides and hookworms are very much similar, and the way for differentatiting them is by looking at their
rhabditiform and filariform
infective larval stage
filariform
- conspicuous - very visible, obvious
- inconspicuous - not visible, not obvious
filariform larvae (L3)
buccal spears are conspicuous and parallel throughout their lengths
Necator americanus
buccal spears are inconspicuous and traverse striations on the sheath in the tail region
Ancylostoma duodenale
- male - broad caudal bursa, rib like rays
- mouths have semilunar cutting plates
- Small cylindrical fusiform grayish-white nematodes
- Head is curved opposite to the curvature of the body
- They look like s-shaped worms
- Spicules are fused
- Female: darkly stained (bigger)
Necator americanus
- 5-9mm by 0.3 mm
- broad membranous caudal bursa with rib-like rays
male N. americanus
9 to 11mm by 0.35 mm
female N. americanus
- Slightly larger
- Head continues in the same direction as the curvature of the body
- Mouths: 2 pairs of teeth
- Spicules are split (separated)
Ancylostoma duodenale
smaller sized hookworm
N. americanus
larger sized hookworm
A. duodenale
s-shaped
N. americanus
c-shaped
A. duodenale