diagnosis Flashcards
– concentrates helminth eggs, larvae
and protozoan cysts
Formalin-Ether technique
sample for Acanthamoeba species
Cerebrospinal fluid
collection for CSF
lumbar tap
collection: hydatid cyst and liver amoebic abscess
Liver aspirate-
collection: Giardiasis and Strongyloidiasis infection
b) Duodenal aspirate
collection for duodenal aspirate
endoscopy
Duodenal drainage or “String test”: duodenal contents collected for
Giardia and Strongylode
Tissue aspirates: Duodenal aspirate-
collectin: Sigmoidoscopy: Schistosomiasis, Amoebiasis, Balantidiasis and Shigellosis
(Large intestines)
Tissue aspirates:
Duodenal aspirate
T.spiralis phase: Can also be known as the incubation/ intestinal invasion
INTESTINAL PHASE
for concentration of
microfilariae’ utilizes venous blood as specime
- Knott Concentration Technique
T.spiralis phase: ✓ first week
✓ small intestinal edema and inflammation
. Intestinal Phase
T.spiralis phase: Signs and symptoms: nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain,
diarrhea, headache and fever, myalgia
Splenomegaly in severe case can also be found as well as
gastric and intestinal hemorrhages
INTESTINAL PHASE
T.spiralis phase: Aka larval migration and muscle invasion
MIGRATION PHASE
T.spiralis phase: Happens up to the 6th week of infection with the following signs
and symptoms:
o High fever (40oC)
o Blurred vision as well as ocular disturbances
MIGRATION PHASE
T.spiralis phase: Cough, pleural pains
Eosinophilia (15-40% for 1 month)
4th to 8th week: deat
MIGRATION PHASE
T.spiralis phase:Acute local inflammation
Edema and pain of musculature
muscular phase
T.spiralis phase: Larval encystation
In 3 -4 days after larval invasion, the muscle fibers will become
edematous, spinle shape, lose their cross striations because
the Trichinallis spiralis larva will already lodged itself into the
muscle fibers.
muscular phase
T.spiralis phase: Fever, weakness, pain and other symptoms start to abate.
Full recovery is expected in this phase since trichinellosis is a
self-limiting disease.
ENCYSTMENT/ ENCAPSULATION PHASE
This is done when meat is suspected of harboring the existed
larvae of trichinella and feeding the meat to the albino rats.
This is done when meat is suspected of harboring the existed
larvae of trichinella and feeding the meat to the albino rats.
T.spiralis phase: Self-limiting disease: eventually Trichinella spiralis will die. It
just has a specific life cycle once it enters the human body, it
will undergo its life cycle and during this phase the parasite
will die.
ENCYSTMENT/ ENCAPSULATION PHASE
Observation is done 14 days after inoculation for the presence
of female worm in the duodenum, and larvae in the muscles
of the experimental animal.
Beck’s Xenodiagnosis
Disease:
o Capillariasis or Mystery Disease
o Malabsorption Syndrome
Flattening of the villi
CAPILLARIA PHILIPPINENSIS
T.trichuria main habitat
cecum and appendic
similar to that of T. trichiura
CAPILLARIA PHILIPPINENSIS
Largest among intestinal nematodes affecting man measuring
15-35 cm in length in adulthood
ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES
This would provide the confirmatory diagnosis but the problem
with this one is that there is a late rise of the antibody titers
which usually commences 3-4 weeks after a light infection.
Serodiagnosis
main habitat of A.lumbricoides
Small intestines (duodenum)
A.lumbri phase? Theses clinical manifestation is also called Loeffler’s
syndrome
THE BLOOD-LUNG MIGRATION PHASE OF THE LARVAE
T.trichuria Principal host
Man, hogs, monkeys, cattle, dogs and mice
A. lumbri diagnosis: o Recovery and identification of fertile or infertile eggs
in feces
Fecalysis
Diagnosis of T.trichuria
Diagnosis:
o Direct Fecal Smear
o Kato Thick smear
o Concentration Methods
A.lumbri phase? Large numbers of worms may give rise to allergic symptoms
THE BLOOD-LUNG MIGRATION PHASE OF THE LARVAE
ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS
diagnosis and prevention
Graham Scotch Tape Technique/Cellulose Acetate
Technique
Better personal hygiene
A. lumbri preventation
Personal hygiene
S.stercoralis habitat
duodenum of man
diagnosis of S/stercoralis
Recovery and identification of rhabditiform larvae in feces
o The larvae must be differentiated from the
hookworm larva once they are found in the feces.
A.lumbri phase? A heavy worm burden can result in malnutrition
THE INTESTINAL PHASE OF THE ADULTS
A.lumbri phase? During the migration through the lungs, the larvae may cause
pneumonia
THE BLOOD-LUNG MIGRATION PHASE OF THE LARVAE
A.lumbri phase? Vague abdominal pains or intermittent colic, especially in
children
THE INTESTINAL PHASE OF THE ADULTS
New World
hookworm,
American
hookworm
Necator
americanus
Cat &
Dog
Hookwor
m
braziliens
e
Old World
Hookworm
Ancylostoma
Duodenale
OLM occurs when a microscopic worm enters the eye causing
inflammations, lesions and formation of scar in the retina.
TOXOCARA SPP.
Benign: 20-80% eosinophilia and hepatomegal
toxocara; VLM
Heavier, or repeated Toxocara infections, while rare, can
cause VLM, a disease that causes swelling of the body’s
organs or central nervous system
toxocara
Causes visceral larva migrans
Toxocara
Dog
Hookworm
Ancylostom
a Caninum
linical grounds
o Marked eosinophilia
o Hepatomegaly
o Hyperglobulinemia
Toxocara
diagnosis of wuchereria bancrofti: method of choice
Fresh Giemsa-stained blood- serve as the laboratory
diagnostic method of choice
specimen of choice for the recovery of loa loa
giemsa stained blood
wuchereria bancrofti sensitive method for diagnosis
A more sensitive method of microfilariae recovery would be
filtering heparinized blood through a special filter, known as a
nuclepore filter and then staining and examining the filter
components/contents.
loa loa common name
African eye worm
Diagnosis of filariasis
PBS-peripheral blood smear (called also the Night blood
because it is nocturnal which is the specimen should be
collected at night specially for microfilaria
Serology
Antigen capture
you cna find Brugia malayi in what country>
o Eastern Asia, Southwestern Pacific Islands, parts of
India
o Brugia timori (island of Timor)
can be found in tropics and sub-tropics areas
W.bancrofti
O.volvu vector
Black fly genus simulium
The one primary characteristic that this organism will be
distinguished from other microfilariae is that it does not
produce a sheath. Another difference is the location of
microfilariae because it is found in subcutaneous tissues and
not found in blood
o.volvu
laboratory diagnosis for O.volvu
Multiple GIEMSA: stained slides of tissue biopsies, known as
skin snips (as little blood as possible, collected from
suspected infected areas are the specimens of choice for the
recovery of O. volvulus microfilariae.
treatment fo O.volvu
Diethyl carbamazine