WHIPWORM anf trichenlla spiralig Flashcards
medical name for whipworm
trichuris trichuria
lives whipowkrm
cecum and ascending colon
how many eggs laid by female whipworm
5000 eggs a day
moa whipworm
SOIL (ascaris ) and fecal oral (ascaris) also need time 15-30 days for rhbaitodrm larvae to develop
symptoms whipworm
mechanical - bleeding from attachment sites can lead to anemia and malnutrition
toxic – due to worm antigens
light infections- asymptomatic
heavy- abdominal pain , anorexia
children rectal props in severe infection
diagnosis whipworm
feces- eggs in stool but NO WORMS
colonoscopy- not always seen
chariot leyden crystal in stool
charcuteries eggs qhipwom
bile stained and barrel shaped easy to set eggs have a mucous plug at each pole
how to tell if its a light infection or heavy whipworm
the degree of infection can be assessed by egg counts less than 10 eggs per smear is considered light infection and more than 50 heavy
infective form spirals
encysted larvae in striated muscles
type of life cycle
direct but for the cycle to continue it sneed to be transmitted to another host of the same species or a different species and so optimum host= pig
life span of tichenalla spirals
very short, male dies as soon as finished mating and female areoun 4 weeks- 4 months
what does the female give birth to in trichenlla
LARVAE - so viviparous
rules for pork meat
smoking, drying or salting does not destroy the larvae . prolonged freeing decontaminates the meat
what’s the disease of spirals called
trichinosis
diagnosis of spirals
direct and indict methods muscle biopsy see the larvae - deltoid or biceps od gastrocnemius are usually selected
xeondiagnosis; feeding rats
indirect: hisorty of eating raw or undercooked pork about 2 weeks earlier along with an epidote of gastroenteritis
bloods- esopniphillia, massive hyper gamma, and iG E
