T14_Nemátodos ★ Flashcards

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Quais são os nemátodos intestinais que conheces?

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  • Enterobius vermicularis
  • Ascaris lumbricoides
  • Ancylostoma duodenalis e Necator americanus
  • Strongyloides stercoralis
  • Trichuris trichiura
  • Trichinella spiralis
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Epidemiologia dos nemátodos

Os Nemátodos tem maior prevalência na ________ e ____, ________, ________ e ____. Tendencialmente aparecem em ambientes com ________, sendo as ________ o grupo etário mais vulnerável.

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  1. *Ásia Central
  2. e Oriental*,
  3. África sub-sahariana,
  4. *América do Norte
  5. e do Sul*
  6. Más condições sanitárias e de higiene
  7. Crianças em idade escolar
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Epidemiologia dos nemátodos

As epidemias ocorrem em regiões ____ e ____, sendo que são doenças ____ ____.

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  1. tropicais
  2. subtropicais
  3. tropicais
  4. negligenciadas
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Epidemiologia dos nemátodos

A sua apresentação clínica mais frequente é ____ ou ____, mas podem ser ____ sobretudo nos seguintes grupos de risco:
1. ____
2. ____
3. ____
4. ____

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  1. assintomática
  2. subclínica
  3. fatais
  4. indivíduos imunocomprometidos
  5. RN
  6. lactentes
  7. crianças pequenas
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Epidemiologia dos nemátodos

Portugal a prevalência é inferior a ____% e o agente etiológico mais comum é o ____ ____.

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  1. 6%
  2. Enterobius vermicularis
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Os nemátodos são seres com corpos _____, não _____. Alongados, com simetria _____. Possuem _____ separados e um tubo digestivo _____.

Vivem no _____ ____ ou nos tecidos do hospedeiro (____).

O corpo é protegido por uma _____ externa, não celular.

Todos os nemátodos, à exceção do _____ _____, necessitam de um periodo fora do organismo do hospedeiro para completar o seu ciclo de vida

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Os nemátodos são seres com corpos cilíndricos, não segmentados. Alongados, com simetria radial. Possuem sexos separados e um tubo digestivo completo.

Vivem no trato gastointestinal ou nos tecidos do hospedeiro (filárias).

O corpo é protegido por uma cutícula externa, não celular.

Todos os nemátodos, à exceção do Strongyloides stercoralis, necessitam de um periodo fora do organismo do hospedeiro para completar o seu ciclo de vida.

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Qual é o nemátodo que não precisa de um período fora do organismo do hospedeiro para completar o seu ciclo de vida?

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Todos os nemátodos, à exceção do Strongyloides stercoralis, necessitam de um periodo fora do organismo do hospedeiro para completar o seu ciclo de vida.

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NEMÁTODOS: VIAS DE TRANSMISSÃO

  1. Ingestão de:
    - ovos ______ contaminantes de ____ e _____ (ex. A. lumbricoides, ____ ____, T. trichiura)
    - formas em desenvolvimento em hospedeiros ______ (ex. ____ _____)
    - _____ embrionados em _______ (Trichinella spiralis)
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  1. Ingestão de:
    - ovos embrionados contaminantes de água e comida (ex. A. lumbricoides, Enterobius vermicularis, T. trichiura)
    - formas em desenvolvimento em hospedeiros intermediários (ex. Dracunculus medinensis)
    - quistos embrionados em carne infetada (Trichinella spiralis)
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  1. Ingestão de:
    - ovos embrionados contaminantes de água e comida (ex. ____ ____, ____ ____ e ____ ____)
    - formas em desenvolvimento em hospedeiros intermediários (ex. ____ ___)
    - quistos embrionados em carne infetada (
    ___ ____)
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  1. Ingestão de:
    - ovos embrionados contaminantes de água e comida (ex. Ascaris lumbricoides, Enterobius vermicularis, Trichuris trichiura)
    - formas em desenvolvimento em hospedeiros intermediários (ex. Dracunculus medinensis)
    - quistos embrionados em carne infetada (Trichinella spiralis)
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NEMÁTODOS: VIAS DE TRANSMISSÃO

2_ ____ _____ por larvas filariformes (ex. S. stercoralis, A. duodenale, N. americanus)

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2_Penetração cutânea por larvas filariformes (ex. S. stercoralis, A. duodenale, N. americanus)

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NEMÁTODOS: VIAS DE TRANSMISSÃO

2_Penetração cutânea por ____ ____ (ex. S. stercoralis, A. duodenale, N. americanus)

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2_Penetração cutânea por larvas filariformes (ex. S. stercoralis, A. duodenale, N. americanus)

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NEMÁTODOS: VIAS DE TRANSMISSÃO

2_Penetração cutânea por larvas filariformes (ex. ____ ____, ____ ____ e ____ ____)

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2_Penetração cutânea por larvas filariformes
1. Strongyloides stercoralis
2. Ancylostoma duodenale
3. Necator americanus

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NEMÁTODOS: VIAS DE TRANSMISSÃO

3Transmissão através de vetores artrópodes (___)

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3_Transmissão através de vetores artrópodes (filárias)

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NEMÁTODOS: VIAS DE TRANSMISSÃO

3_Transmissão através de ____ ____ (filárias)

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3_Transmissão através de vetores artrópodes (filárias)

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NEMÁTODOS: VIAS DE TRANSMISSÃO

4_Inalação de ____ ____ contaminado com ovos embrionados (ex. A. lumbricoides, E. vermicularis)

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4_Inalação de pó contaminado com ovos embrionados (ex. A. lumbricoides, E. vermicularis)

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NEMÁTODOS: VIAS DE TRANSMISSÃO

4_Inalação de pó contaminado com ____ ____ (ex. A. lumbricoides, E. vermicularis)

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4_Inalação de pó contaminado com ovos embrionados (ex. A. lumbricoides, E. vermicularis)

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NEMÁTODOS: VIAS DE TRANSMISSÃO

4_Inalação de pó contaminado com ovos embrionados (ex. ____ ____, ____ ____)

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4_Inalação de pó contaminado com ovos embrionados (ex.
1. Ascaris lumbricoides
2. Enterobius vermicularis

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Quais são as 4 vias de transmissão dos nemátodos?

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  1. Ingestão de:
    - ovos embrionados contaminantes de água e comida (ex. A. lumbricoides, E. vermicularis, T. trichiura)
    - formas em desenvolvimento em hospedeiros intermediários (ex. D. medinensis)
    - quistos embrionados em carne infetada (Trichinella spiralis)
  2. Penetração cutânea por larvas filariformes (ex. S. stercoralis, A. duodenale, N. americanus)
  3. Transmissão através de vetores artrópodes (filárias)
  4. Inalação de pó contaminado com ovos embrionados (ex. A. lumbricoides, E. vermicularis)
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Caracteriza o Ciclo de vida do Enterobius vermicularis

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E. vermicularis, the pinworm, is a small, white worm that is familiar to parents who find them in the perianal folds or vagina of an infected child.

Infection is initiated by ingestion of embryonated eggs.

Larvae hatch in the small intestine and migrate to the large intestine, in which they mature into adults in 2 to 6 weeks.

Fertilization of the female by the male produces the characteristic asymmetric eggs.

These eggs are laid in the perianal folds by the migrating female.

As many as 20,000 eggs are deposited on the perianal skin.

The eggs rapidly mature and are infectious within hours

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Doente com Enterobiose. O que pode apresentar clinicamente?

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Os pacientes podem ser assintomáticos ou sintomáticos, sendo que os sintomáticos são alérgicos às secreções dos nemátodos em migração.
Clinicamente:
* Prurido intenso na região perianal e perineal, especialmente à noite
* Alterações no sono
* Cansaço

Lesões perianais secundárias ao prurido intenso e consequente coceira são passíveis de surgir, com possível infeção bacteriana secundária, dada a região. Podendo evoluir para vulvo-vaginites.

Pode haver formação de granulomas.

Many children and adults show no symptoms and serve only as carriers.

Patients who are allergic to the secretions of the migrating worms experience:
* severe pruritus,
* loss of sleep,
* and fatigue.

The pruritus may cause repeated scratching of the irritated area and lead to secondary bacterial infection.

Worms that migrate into the vagina may produce genitourinary problems and granulomas.

Worms attached to the bowel wall may produce inflammation and granuloma formation around the eggs.

Although the adult worms may occasionally invade the appendix, there remains no proven relationship between pinworm invasion and appendicitis.

Penetration through the bowel wall into the peritoneal cavity, liver, and lungs has been infrequently recorded

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Como é que se efetua o diagnóstico laboratorial do Enterobius vermicularis?

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Teste de Graham
Observação do parasita e/ou ovos na região perianal, recolhidos com tira de adesivo e colocados para observação microscópica

A amostra deve ser recolhida, assim que a criança acorda, antes de tomar banho ou defecar, de forma a apanhar os ovos colocados aquando da migração.

Três colheitas, 1 por dia, durante 3 dias é o aconselhado, quando não se deteta na 1ª amostra

Não devemos ter amostras de fezes pois raramente conseguimos detetar aí os ovos.

The diagnosis of enterobiasis is usually suggested by the clinical manifestations and confirmed by detection of the characteristic eggs on the anal mucosa.

Occasionally, the adult worms are seen by laboratory personnel in stool specimens, but the method of choice for diagnosis involves use of an anal swab with a sticky surface that picks up the eggs for microscopic examination.

Sampling can be done with clear tape or commercially available swabs. The sample should be collected when the child arises and before bathing or defecation, to pick up eggs laid by migrating worms during the night.

Parents can collect the specimen and deliver it to the physician for immediate microscopic examination.

Three swabs, one per day for 3 consecutive days, may be required to detect the diagnostic eggs.

The eggs are rarely seen in fecal specimens.
Systemic signs of infection, such as eosinophilia, are rare.

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Como é a morfologia do Enterobius vermicularis?

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 Ovos muito leves, em forma de barril
assimétrico
 Uma das faces achatada (em forma de D)
 Dupla membrana

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Como é o ciclo de vida do Ascaris lumbricoides?

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A. lumbricoides are large (20 to 35 cm in length), pink worms (see Fig. 74.1) that have a more complex life cycle than E. vermicularis but are otherwise typical of an intestinal roundworm.

The ingested infective egg releases a larval worm that penetrates the duodenal wall, enters the bloodstream, is carried to the liver and heart, and then enters the pulmonary circulation.

The larvae break free in the alveoli of the lungs, in which they grow and molt.

In about 3 weeks, the larvae pass from the respiratory system to be coughed up, swallowed, and returned to the small intestine.

As the male and female worms mature in the small intestine (primarily jejunum), fertilization of the female by the male initiates egg production, which may amount to 200,000 eggs per day for as long as a year.

Female worms can also produce unfertilized eggs in the absence of males.

Eggs are found in the feces 60 to 75 days after the initial infection.

Fertilized eggs become infectious after approximately 2 weeks in the soil.

 Helmintíase mundialmente mais comum
 Endémico em regiões dos EUA, Nigéria, Sudeste da Ásia
 Pode atingir 40 cm de comprimento

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Como é a clínica do Ascaris lumbricoides?

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Larvas migrantes:
* Síndrome de Loeffler - Pneumonite
* Larva migrans visceral

Vermes adultos:
* Desconforto abdominal, diarreia
* Défice de vitamina A (cegueira noturna)
* Obstrução intestinal (++crianças 1-5 anos), interssusepção, volvo intestinal
* Perforação intestinal e peritonite
* Reações de Hipersensibilidade

Ascaríase Ectópica

CLINICAL SYNDROMES
Infections caused by the ingestion of only a few eggs may produce no symptoms; however, even a single adult Ascaris worm may be dangerous because it can migrate into the bile duct, resulting in liver and damage tissue.

Furthermore, because the worm has a tough, flexible body, it can occasionally perforate the intestine, creating peritonitis with secondary bacterial infection.

The adult worms do not attach to the intestinal mucosa but depend on constant motion to maintain their position within the bowel lumen.

After infection with many larvae, migration of worms to the lungs can produce pneumonitis resembling an asthmatic attack.

Pulmonary involvement is related to the degree of hypersensitivity induced by previous infections and the intensity of the current exposure and may be accompanied by eosinophilia and oxygen desaturation.

Also, a tangled bolus of mature worms in the intestine can result in obstruction, perforation, and occlusion of the appendix.

As mentioned previously, migration into the bile duct, gallbladder, and liver can produce severe tissue damage. This migration can occur in response to fever, drugs other than those used to treat ascariasis, and some anesthetics.

Patients with many larvae may also experience abdominal tenderness, fever, distention, and vomiting.

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Caracteriza as complicações da Ascaríase Ectópica

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  • Canal colédoco - colecistite (mais comum)
  • Apendicite
  • Ducto pancreático – pancreatite
  • Abcesso hepático
  • Eliminação do verme pela boca e narinas
  • Asfixia (laringe)
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Como é que efetuas o diagnóstico laboratorial do Ascaris lumbricoides?

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  1. Macroscopicamente: deteção de vermes nas fezes ou vómito
  2. Microscopicamente: exame parasitológico das fezes com concentração (até 3 amostras, dias diferentes, em 10 dias)
    ovos ovais, amarelados, parede espessa e corticada, superfície mamilonada; podem ser decorticadosovos férteis arredondados;
    ovos inférteis alongados, grânulos refrácteis
  3. A clínica pulmonar é provocada por larvas, pelo que não se encontram ovos nas fezes durante essa fase, mas sim cerca de quatro semanas depois
  4. Outros ECD’s: técnicas imagiológicas/endoscópicas
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Como é a distribuição epidemiológica dos Ancilostomídeos?

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Ancilostoma duodenale (sin.: Ancilostoma do Velho Mundo)
Europa, África, ÁsiaOcidental, China e Japão

Necator Americanus (sin.: Ancilostoma do Novo Mundo)
África, Sul da China e Índia, Américas

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Caracteriza o ciclo de vida dos Ancilostomídeos

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The two human hookworms are Ancilostoma duodenale (Old World hookworm) and Necator americanus (New World hookworm). Differing only in geographic distribution, structure of mouthparts, and relative size, these two species are discussed together as agents of hookworm
infection.

The human phase of the hookworm life cycle is initiated when a filariform (infective form) larva penetrates intact skin.

The larva then enters the circulation, is carried to the lungs, and similar to A. lumbricoides, is coughed up, swallowed, and develops to adulthood in the small intestine.

Adult worms lay as many as 10,000 to 20,000 eggs per day, which are released into the feces.

Egg laying is initiated 4 to 8 weeks after the initial exposure and can persist for as long as 5 years.

On contact with soil, the rhabditiform (noninfective) larvae are released from the eggs and within 2 weeks develop into filariform larvae.

The filariform larvae can then penetrate exposed skin (e.g., bare feet) and initiate a new cycle of human infection q.

Both species have mouthparts designed for sucking blood from injured intestinal tissue. A. duodenale has chitinous teeth, and N. americanus has shearing chitinous plates

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Como é a clínica associada aos Ancilostomídeos?

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Larvas migrantes:
1. Lesões cutâneas
* Dermatite e prurido cutâneo (“ground itch”)
* Erupção serpinginosa (“larva migrans”)
2. Lesões pulmonares
* Bronquite e bronco pneumonia

Vermes adultos:
1. Dor epigástrica, vómitos e diarreia
2. Anemia microcítica hipocrómica
3. Hipoproteinémia

Clinical Syndromes
Skin-penetrating larvae may produce an allergic reaction and rash at sites of entry, and larvae migrating in the lungs can cause pneumonitis and eosinophilia.

Adult worms produce the gastrointestinal symptoms of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.

As blood is lost from feeding worms, a microcytic hypochromic anemia develops.

Daily blood loss is estimated at 0.15 to 0.25 ml for each adult A. duodenale and 0.03 ml for each adult N. americanus.

In severe, chronic infections, emaciation and mental and physical retardation may occur related to anemia from blood loss and nutritional deficiencies.

Also,* intestinal sites may be secondarily infected by bacteria when the worms migrate along the intestinal mucosa*.

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Como é feito o diagnóstico laboratorial dos Ancilostomídeos?

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  1. Exame parasitológico das fezes com concentração (até 3 amostras, dias diferentes, em 10 dias) – **conservar a 4º C, máx. até 24h **
    * ovos idênticos para ambas as espécies;
    * formato oval;
    * amarelo claro;
    * membrana única, translúcida, transparente e brilhante
  2. Apesar de não ser clinicamente necessário, apenas a morfologia das larvas permite a sua identificação:
    - Ancylostoma duodenale: cápsula bucal com dois pares de dentes ventrais na margem interna da boca
    - Necator americanus: cápsula bucal com duas lâminas cortantes semilunares na margem interna da boca
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Caracteriza o ciclo de vida da Trichuris trichura

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Commonly called whipworm because it resembles the handle and lash of a whip, Trichuris trichiura has a simple life cycle.

Ingested eggs hatch into a larval worm in the small intestine and then migrate to the cecum, in which they penetrate the mucosa and mature to adults.

About 3 months after the initial infection, the fertilized female worm starts laying eggs and may produce 3000 to 10,000 eggs per day.

Female worms can live for as long as 8 years.

Eggs passed into the soil mature and become infectious in 3 weeks.

T. trichiura eggs are distinctive, with dark bile staining, a barrel shape, and the presence of polar plugs in the egg shell.

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Descreve as entidades clínicas da trichiuríase

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  • Indivíduos afetados podem manter-se assintomáticos
  • Quadro disentérico (dor abdominal, tenesmo, diarreia mucosanguinolenta)
  • Colite crónica (frequentemente com tenesmo e prolapso rectal, sobretudo em crianças)
  • Malnutrição, perda de peso e anemia

CLINICAL SYNDROMES
The clinical manifestations of trichuriasis are generally related to the intensity of the worm burden.

Most infections are with small numbers of Trichuris organisms and are usually asymptomatic, although secondary bacterial infection may occur because the heads of the worms penetrate deep into the intestinal mucosa.

Infections with many larvae may produce abdominal pain and distention, bloody diarrhea, weakness, and weight loss.

Appendicitis may occur as worms fill the lumen, prolapse of the rectum is seen in children because of the irritation and straining during defecation.

Anemia and eosinophilia also are seen in severe
infections.

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Como é que efetuas o diagnóstico laboratorial de trichuríase?

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Exame parasitológico das fezes com concentração (até 3 amostras, dias diferentes, em 10 dias) – conservar a 4º C, máx. até 24h

  • ovos de coloração acastanhada,
  • com presença de dois rolhões mucosos nos polos
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Quanto ao Strongyloides Stercoralis:
* a infeção ocorre por ____ d_ ____ através d_ ____, podendo posteriormente atingir __ _____
* Persistência da infeção ocorre devido à ____

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Quanto ao Strongyloides Stercoralis:
* a infeção ocorre por penetração da larva através da pele, podendo posteriormente atingir os pulmões
* Persistência da infeção ocorre devido à autoinfeção

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Caracteriza o ciclo de vida do Strongyloides Stercoralis

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Although the morphology of these worms and the epidemiology of their infections are similar to the hookworm, the life cycle of Strongyloides stercoralis differs in three aspects:
(1) eggs hatch into larvae in the intestine and before they are passed in feces;
(2) larvae can mature into filariforms in the intestine and cause autoinfection;
and (3) a free-living, nonparasitic cycle can be established outside the human host.

In direct development, such as the hookworm, a skin-penetrating S. stercoralis larva enters the circulation and follows the pulmonary course.

It is coughed up and swallowed, and adults develop in the small intestine.

Adult females burrow into the mucosa of the duodenum and reproduce parthenogenetically. Each female produces about a dozen eggs each day, which hatch within the mucosa and release rhabditiform larvae into the lumen of the bowel.

The rhabditiform larvae are distinguished from the larvae of hookworms by their short buccal capsule and large genital primordium.

The rhabditiform larvae are passed in the stool and may either continue the direct cycle by developing into infective filariform larvae or develop into free-living adult worms and initiate the indirect cycle.

In indirect development, the larvae in soil develop into free-living adults that produce eggs and larvae.

Several generations of this nonparasitic existence may occur before new larvae become skin-penetrating parasites.

Finally, in autoinfection, rhabditiform larvae in the intestine do not pass with feces but become filariform larvae.

These penetrate the intestinal mucosa or perianal skin and follow the course through the circulation and pulmonary structures, are coughed up, and then are swallowed; at this point, they become adults, producing more larvae in the intestine.

This cycle can persist for years and can lead to hyperinfection and massive or disseminated, often fatal infection.

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Qual é a clínica associada ao Strongyloides stercoralis?

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  1. Queixas intestinais assemelham-se ao síndrome do cólon irritável, alternando períodos de diarreia, com períodos de obstipação, associados a dor abdominal intermitente
  2. Infeção intestinal crónica cursa com diarreia crónica, associada a sintomas de má-absorção (défice de vitamina B12 e folato)
  3. Síndrome de hiperinfeção em situações de imunodepressão:
    - corticóides/imunossupressão
    - malignidade
    - malnutrição
    - gravidez/puerpério
    - SIDA

CLINICAL SYNDROMES
Individuals with strongyloidiasis frequently are afflicted with pneumonitis from migrating larvae similar to that seen in ascariasis and hookworm infection.

The intestinal infection is usually asymptomatic. However, heavy worm
loads may involve the biliary and pancreatic ducts, the entire small bowel, and the colon, causing inflammation and ulceration leading to epigastric pain and tenderness, vomiting, diarrhea (occasionally bloody), and malabsorption.

Symptoms mimicking peptic ulcer disease, coupled with peripheral eosinophilia, should strongly suggest the diagnosis of strongyloidiasis.

Autoinfection may lead to chronic strongyloidiasis that can last for years, even in nonendemic areas. Although many of these chronic infections may be asymptomatic, as many as two-thirds of patients have recurring episodic symptoms referable to the involved skin, lungs, and intestinal tract.

Individuals with chronic strongyloidiasis are at risk of developing severe, life-threatening hyperinfection syndrome if the host-parasite balance is disturbed by any drug or illness that compromises the host’s immune status .

Hyperinfection syndrome is seen most commonly in individuals immunocompromised by malignancies (especially hematologic malignancies), corticosteroid therapy, or both.

Hyperinfection syndrome also has been observed in patients who have undergone solid organ transplantation and in malnourished people.

Loss of cellular immune function may be associated with the conversion of rhabditiform larvae to filariform larvae, followed by dissemination of the larvae via the circulation to virtually any organ.

Most commonly, extraintestinal infection involves the lung and includes bronchospasm, diffuse infiltrates, and occasionally cavitation.

Widespread dissemination that involves the abdominal lymph nodes, liver, spleen, kidneys, pancreas, thyroid, heart, brain, and meninges is common.

Intestinal symptoms of hyperinfection syndrome include profound diarrhea, malabsorption, and electrolyte abnormalities.

Of note, hyperinfection syndrome is associated with a mortality rate of approximately 86%.
Bacterial sepsis, meningitis, peritonitis, and endocarditis secondary to larval spread from the intestine are frequent and often fatal complications of hyperinfection syndrome.

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O Síndrome de Hiperinfeção ocorre na infeção por _____ _____, especialmente nos ______, que prefazem os seguintes grupos de risco:
1. ______
2. ______
3. ______
4. ______
5. ______

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O Síndrome de Hiperinfeção ocorre na infeção por Strongyloides stercoralis, especialmente nos imunodeprimidos, que prefazem os seguintes grupos de risco:
1. corticóides/imunossupressão
2. malignidade
1. malnutrição
1. gravidez/puerpério
1. SIDA

Individuals with chronic strongyloidiasis are at risk of developing severe, life-threatening hyperinfection syndrome if the host-parasite balance is disturbed by any drug or illness that compromises the host’s immune status .

Hyperinfection syndrome is seen most commonly in individuals immunocompromised by malignancies (especially hematologic malignancies), corticosteroid therapy, or both.

Hyperinfection syndrome also has been observed in patients who have undergone solid organ transplantation and in malnourished people.

Loss of cellular immune function may be associated with the conversion of rhabditiform larvae to filariform larvae, followed by dissemination of the larvae via the circulation to virtually any organ.

Most commonly, extraintestinal infection involves the lung and includes bronchospasm, diffuse infiltrates, and occasionally cavitation.

Widespread dissemination that involves the abdominal lymph nodes, liver, spleen, kidneys, pancreas, thyroid, heart, brain, and meninges is common.

Intestinal symptoms of hyperinfection syndrome include profound diarrhea, malabsorption, and electrolyte abnormalities.

Of note, hyperinfection syndrome is associated with a mortality rate of approximately 86%.
Bacterial sepsis, meningitis, peritonitis, and endocarditis secondary to larval spread from the intestine are frequent and often fatal complications of hyperinfection syndrome.

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Como é efetuado o diagnóstico laboratorial do Strongyloides Stercoralis?

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  1. Exame parasitológico das fezes com concentração (até 3 amostras, dias diferentes, em 10 dias) – conservar a 4ºC, máx. até 24h
    OBSERVAM-SE VERMES NÃO OVOS
  2. Serologia
  3. Cultura de larvas nas fezes
  4. PCR nas fezes
  5. Pesquisa do parasita no conteúdo duodenal e na expectoração

The diagnosis of strongyloidiasis may be difficult because of the intermittent passage of low numbers of first-stage larvae in stool.

Examination of concentrated stool sediment reveals the larval worms, but in contrast with hookworm infections,

in S. stercoralis infections, eggs are generally not seen.

Collecting samples from three stools, one per day for 3 days (as for G. duodenalis), is recommended because S. stercoralis larvae may occur in “showers,” with many present one day and few or none the next.

Several authors favor the Baermann funnel gauze method of concentrating living S. stercoralis larvae from fecal specimens.
This method uses a funnel with a stopcock and a gauze insert. The funnel is filled with lukewarm water to a level just covering the gauze, and a specimen of stool is placed on the gauze, partially in contact with the water.
The larvae in the stool migrate through the gauze into the water and then sediment into the neck of the funnel, in which they may be detected by low-power microscopy.

When absent from stool, larvae may be detected in duodenal aspirates or in sputum in the case of massive infection.

Finally, culture of the larvae from stool using charcoal cultures or an agar plate method may be used, although these are not routine in most laboratories.

Demonstration of anti-Strongyloides antibodies in blood may be useful as a screening test or as an adjunct for diagnosis.

Diagnosis by nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) has been developed for testing stool and urine and is now available in many reference laboratories.

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Quanto à Trichinella spiralis:
1. Pequeno verme de distribuição ____, exceto nos ____
2. O humano infeta-se ao ingerir ____ contaminada (ex. ____ / ____)
3. Estes animais infetam-se ao ingerir ____ ____ ____ (ex. ____)
4. Larvas atravessam ____ ____ e atingem a ____ ____

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Quanto à Trichinella spiralis:
1. Pequeno verme de distribuição mundial, exceto nos trópicos
2. O humano infeta-se ao ingerir carne contaminada (ex. porco/javali)
3. Estes animais infetam-se ao ingerir pequenos animais infetados (ex. rato)
4. Larvas atravessam parede intestinal e atingem a circulação sistémica

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Caracteriza o ciclo de vida da Trichinella spiralis

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T. spiralis is the most important cause of human disease, but other species, such as T. pseudospiralis and T. britovi, may also cause trichinosis.

The adult form of this organism lives in the duodenal and jejunal mucosa of flesh-eating mammals worldwide.

The infectious larval form is present in the striated muscles of carnivorous and omnivorous
mammals.

Among domestic animals, swine are most frequently involved.

Fig. 74.13 illustrates the simple, direct life cycle, which terminates in the musculature of humans, in which the larvae eventually die and calcify.

The infection begins when meat that contains encysted larvae is digested.

The larvae leave the meat in the small intestine and within 2 days develop into adult worms.

A single fertilized female produces more than 1500 larvae in 1 to 3 months.

These larvae move from the intestinal mucosa into the bloodstream and are carried in the circulation to various muscle sites throughout the body, in which they coil in striated muscle fibers and become encysted.

The muscles invaded most frequently include the:
* extraocular muscles of the eye;
* the tongue;
* the deltoid, pectoral, and intercostal muscles;
* the diaphragm;
* and the gastrocnemius muscle.

The encysted larvae remain viable for many years and are infectious if ingested by a new animal host.

The muscle larvae of T. pseudospiralis do not induce the formation of a cyst and generate less inflammation than that of T. spiralis.

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Q

Caracteriza a clínica da Trichinella spiralis

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  1. Sintomatologia depende da fase da infeção e do local onde se aloja o quisto
    - Fase de invasão intestinal (semelhante a gastroenterite)
    - Fase de migração larvar (reações inflamatórias e alérgicas)
    - Fase de deposição nos tecidos (assintomática se leve; se severa, mialgias ou fraqueza muscular)
  2. Músculos mais frequentemente atingidos:
    * extraoculares do olho,
    * língua,
    * diafragma,
    * intercostais,
    * deltóide,
    * grande peitoral,
    * biceps
  3. Pode ser fatal (miocardite, encefalite, pneumonite, diafragma)

Trichinosis is one of the few tissue parasitic diseases still seen in the United States. As with other parasitic infections, most patients have minimal or no symptoms.

The clinical presentation depends largely on the tissue burden of organisms and the location of the migrating larvae.

Patients in whom no more than 10 larvae are deposited per gram of tissue are usually asymptomatic, those with at least 100 generally have significant disease, and those with 1000 to 5000 have a very serious course that occasionally ends in death.

In mild infections with few migrating larvae, patients may experience only an influenza-like syndrome with slight fever and mild diarrhea.

With more extensive larval migration, persistent fever, gastrointestinal distress, marked eosinophilia, muscle pain, and periorbital edema occur.

“Splinter” hemorrhages beneath the nails, a common finding, are probably caused by vasculitis resulting from toxic secretions of the migrating larvae.

In heavy infections, severe neurologic symptoms, including psychosis, meningoencephalitis, and cerebrovascular accident, may occur.

Patients who survive the migration, muscle destruction, and encystment of larvae in moderate infections experience a decline in clinical symptoms in 5 or 6 weeks.

Lethal trichinosis results when myocarditis, encephalitis, and pneumonitis combine; the patient dies 4 to 6 weeks after infection.

Respiratory arrest often follows heavy invasion and muscle destruction in the diaphragm

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Q

Como é efetuado o diagnóstico laboratorial da Trichinosíase

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Serologia
Outros ECD’s: Biópsia muscular

The diagnosis is usually established with clinical observations, especially when an outbreak can be traced to consumption of improperly cooked pork or bear meat.

The laboratory may confirm the diagnosis if the encysted larvae are detected in the implicated meat or in a muscle biopsy specimen from the patient.

Marked eosinophilia is characteristically present in patients with trichinosis.

Serologic procedures also are available for confirmation of the diagnosis.

Significant antibody titers are usually absent before the third week of illness but then may persist for years.

43
Q

Tabela resumo aula nemátodos

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