Ancylostoma and Necator
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Parasites
- Giardia lamblia
- Toxoplasma gondii
- Entamoeba histolytica
- Cryptosporidium
- Naegleria fowleri
- Trypanosoma brucei
- Plasmodium Overview
- Plasmodium Disease (Malaria)
- Babesia
- Trypanosoma cruzi
- Leishmania
- Trichomonas vaginalis
- Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm)
- Ascaris lumbricoides (giant roundworm)
- Strongyloides stercoralis (threadworm)
- Ancylostoma and Necator
- Trichinella spiralis
- Trichuris trichiura (whipworm)
- Toxocara canis
- Onchocerca volvulus
- Loa loa
- Wuchereria bancrofti
- Taenia solium
- Diphyllobothrium latum
- Echinococcus granulosus
- Schistosoma
- Clonorchis sinensis
- Sarcoptes scabiei (Scabies)
- Pediculus humanis and Phthirus pubis (Lice)
- Ancylostoma spp., Necator americanus
- Characteristics
- Also known as hookworms
- Transmission
- Found in soil contaminated with human feces
- Larvae penetrate skin of barefoot walkers
- Found in soil contaminated with human feces
- Pathogenesis and Presentation
- Skin irritation at site of skin invasion
- Cutaneous larva migrans
- Serpiginous tracks of intracutaneous larval migration
- Cutaneous larva migrans
- After entering the foot, migrate via blood to the lungs and through trachea
- Larvae are swallowed and mature into adult worms in intestinal walls
- Anemia
- Caused by worms sucking blood from intestinal walls
- Anemia
- Eosinophilia
- Skin irritation at site of skin invasion
- Diagnosis
- Stool microscopy (O&P)
- Eggs are seen in stool
- Stool microscopy (O&P)
- Treatment
- Bendazoles
- Pyrantel pamoate
- Characteristics