Nematodes Flashcards
Roundworms
Nematodes
T/F: Not all nematodes are parasitic
True
General characteristics of nematodes
- nonsegmentes
Cylindrical - tapered at both ends
- complete digestive tract
- separate sexes
- females are usually larger
- males are usually curved at the posterior and have special copulatory organs
T/F: Nematodes does not form through replicating or repeating segments
True. They are NONSEGMENTAL
Nematodes reproduce through…
Sexual reproduction after copulation between male and female adults
Special copulatory organs are present on __________ to _________________________
Nematodes; to hold on to female during copulation
Giant intestinal round worm
Ascaris lumbricoides
Most common intestinal nematode worldwide
Ascaris lumbricoides
A. Lumbricoides is transmitted in…
Soil
A. Lumbricoides is a (obligate, opportunistic) parasite
Obligate
Adult Ascaris lumbricoides is found in…
Small intestine
A. Lumbricoides is acquired through the…
Ingestion of contaminated food with soil that contains EMBRYONATED EGGS.
T/F: Heart-Lung migration occurs in A. Lumbricoides
TRUE
Adult Nematode that appears like spaghetti
Ascaris lumbricoides
Differentiate unfertilized and fertilized A. Lumbricoides egg
Unfertilized: larger and longer
Fertilized: round/oval, has a thick shell w/ finely granular embryo
Outermost shell of A. Lumbricoides ova is called…
Mamillary coat/layer
T/F: Fully embryonated egg of A. Lumbricoides is diagnostic in stool
FALSE. It takes several weeks for the ova to become fully embryonated
Most severe forms of ascaris infections is due to…
Ectopic migration of adults
Definitive diagnosis of A. Lumbricoides
Unembryonated Eggs in stool
Similar specie of A. Lumbricoides but hosts are pigs
Ascaris suum
Whipworm
Trichuris trichuira
T/F: Ascaris can have a co-infection with Trichuris
TRUE
T. Trichuira is a (obligate, facultative, accidental, permanent, temporary, spurious)
Obligate
Adult Trichuris trichuira is found in…
Large intestine
T. Trichuira is acquired though..
Ingestion of contaminated food of embryonated ova
T/F: Similarly to A. Lumbricoides, T. Trichuira has a heart-lung migration
FALSE. No heart-lung migration for T. Trichuira
Adult male T. Trichuira has a posterior end…
Coiled >360 degrees
Football/barrel shaped w/ bipolar plugs ova
T. Trichuira
T/F: Shells of T. Trichuira is thinner than A. Lumbricoides
True
Petechial hemorrhages in the instestines is caused by which nematode?
T. Trichuira
Rectal prolapse is seen in Chronic and heavy infection of …
T. Trichuira
T. Trichuira definitive diagnosis
Ova in stool
Two most important/common intestinal h ookworms
Necator americanus
Ancylostoma duodenale
Hookworms:
Infective Stage:
MOI:
Adult Habitat:
Diagnostic Stage:
Filariform larva
Skin penetration/ingestion
Small Intestine
Ova in stool
Hookworms (obligate, accidental, permanent, temporary)
Obligate
T/F: Eggs of Hookworms are non-infectious
TRUE
Hookworm maturity stages
Adult hookworm copulate - ova - passed on feces - not disposed - soil - larva - rhabditiform larva - filariform larva
Parasitic stage of hookworms
Filariform larva
2 modes of infection of hookworms
Skin penetration
Ingestion
Hookworms: Heart lung migration (YES, NO)
YES
Which hookworm can only be acquired of infection through ingestion?
Ancylostoma
*Necator americanus can only be through skin penetration
T/F: Transmammary and transplacental is also a mode of infection for Necator americanus
False. It is by Ancylostoma duodenale
Adult male hookworm is distinguished by female through…
Posterior structure - COPULATORY BURSA (fan-like structure w/ ribs to hold during copulation)
Compare the buccal cavity of necator and ancylostoma
Necator: semilunar cutting disks
Ancylostoma duodenale: 2 pairs of teeth
Ancylostoma caninum: 3 pairs of teeth
The teeth or cutting disks of necator and ancylosoma is used for…
Attachment and NOT for chewing food
Describe ova of hookworms
Ovid in shape
Slightly elongated
Very thin shell/membrane
W/ embyro
Rhabditiform larvae is only visible in stool if..
Px is constipated
Delayed processing of specimen
T/F: Filariform is more seen in stool tan rhabditiform
Both are rarely/almost impossible to find in stool