Helminths

Question 1

Classification of the helminths by morphology?

Answer 1

Flatworms: flukes and tapeworms; roundworms

Question 2

What are the most characteristic properties of the flukes (3 example)?

Answer 2

they are short, flat, leaf shaped, hermaphrodites, do developed digestive system

Question 3

What is the most common intermediate host of the flukes?

Answer 3

water snail

Question 4

What is the causative agent of fascioliasis?

Answer 4

Fasciola hepatica

Question 5

What is the treatment of fascioliasis?

Answer 5

bithionol or triclabendazole

Question 6

What is the causative agent of the lung fluke disease?

Answer 6

Paragonimus westermani

Question 7

What are the symptoms of paragonimiasis?

Answer 7

night sweats, fever, bloody sputum, chest pain, pleuritis, bronchopneumonia

Question 8

What is the treatment of paragonimiasis?

Answer 8

praziquantel or bithionol

Question 9

What are the blood flukes?

Answer 9

Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum, Schistosoma haematobium

Question 10

Which flukes can live in the intestinal venules?

Answer 10

Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma japonicum

Question 11

Which fluke can live in the bladder venules?

Answer 11

Schistosoma haematobium

Question 12

What is the treatment of schstosomiasis?

Answer 12

praziquantel

Question 13

What is the intermediate host of Taenia saginata?

Answer 13

cattle

Question 14

What is the intermediate host of Taenia solium?

Answer 14

pig

Question 15

What kind of human diseases cab be caused by Taenia solium? (2 example)

Answer 15

tape worm infection and, cysticercus cellulosae

Question 16

What is the treatment of taeniasis?

Answer 16

Niclosamide, mebendazole

Question 17

What is the causative agent of fish tapeworm disease?

Answer 17

Diphyllobothrium latum

Question 18

What is the treatment of diphyllobothriasis?

Answer 18

Niclosamide

Question 19

Which vitamin deficiency can cause by Diphyllobothrium latum?

Answer 19

The lack of B12 vitamin

Question 20

How can Hymenolepis nana infection treated?

Answer 20

Niclosamide

Question 21

Which helminths can develop hydatid cysts?

Answer 21

Echinococcus granulosus and Echinococcus multilocularis

Question 22

How can the hydatide cysts treated?

Answer 22

By albendazole or surgical removing

Question 23

Which helminth can cause itchiness in anus?

Answer 23

Enterobius vermicularis

Question 24

How can be treated the infection caused by Enterobius vermicularis?

Answer 24

By mebendazole

Question 25

How can be diagnosed the infection caused by Enterobius vermicularis?

Answer 25

by sticky tape or Scotch tape

Question 26

Which helminth can cause diarrhoea by prolapses of rectum?

Answer 26

Trichuris trichiura

Question 27

Which helminth can cause protein deficiency (Kwashiorkor syndrome)?

Answer 27

Ascaris lumbricoides

Question 28

Which helminths can suck blood?

Answer 28

Ancylostoma duodenale, Necator americanus

Question 29

What is the treatment of the infection caused by Ancylostoma and Necator?

Answer 29

mebendazole, albendazole

Question 30

Which helminth can cause paralytic ileus?

Answer 30

Strongyloides stercoralis

Question 31

What kind of human disease can be caused by Toxocara canis?

Answer 31

visceral larva migrans and ocular larva migrans syndrome

Question 32

What kind of specimen can be used to diagnose the Toxocara infection?

Answer 32

Blood for serology

Question 33

What kind of helminthic infection can spread from carnivore animals to humans?

Answer 33

Trichinella spiralis

Question 34

What is the diagnosis of trichinellosis?

Answer 34

Serology from blood

Question 35

What is the treatment of the Trichinella infection?

Answer 35

mebendazole, albendazole and can acts only on intestinal helminths

Question 36

What is the causative agent of lymphatic filariasis, elephantiasis?

Answer 36

Wuchereria bancrofti

Question 37

How can elephantiasis spread?

Answer 37

By mosquito bite

Question 38

What is the treatment of filariasis?

Answer 38

diethylcarbamazin

Question 39

Which helminth can appear in subconjunctival region?

Answer 39

Loa-loa

Question 40

Which helminth can cause river blindness and elephant skin?

Answer 40

Onchocerca volvulus