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* Eosinophilia seen in tissue-invasive worms, not in those that live in the gut or in cystic structures |
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Revision as of 01:09, 15 August 2019
Helminths
- Flatworms (platyhelminths)
- Flukes (trematodes)
- [Schistosoma spp. (blood flukes)](Schistosoma spp. (schistosomiasis).md)
- Clonorchis (liver fluke)
- Paragonimus (lung fluke)
- Fasciola hepatica (intestinal fluke)
- Tapeworms (cestodes)
- Intestinal tapeworms
- [Taenia solium (pork tapeworm)](Taenia solium (cysticercosis).md)
- Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm)
- Hymenolepis nana (dwarf tapeworm)
- Diphyllobothrium latum (fish tapeworm)
- Larval tapeworms
- Echinococcus granulosus (hydatid worm)
- Echinococcus multilocularis (alveolar hydatid disease)
- Cysticercus (larvareal Taenia solium)
- Intestinal tapeworms
- Flukes (trematodes)
- Roundworms (nematodes)
- Intestinal roundworms
- Ascaris lumbricoides (great roundworm)
- Necator americanus (New World hookworm)
- Ancylostoma duodenale (Old World hookworm)
- [Strongyloides stercoralis (threadworm)](Strongyloides stercoralis (strongyloidiasis).md)
- Trichuris trichuria (whipworm)
- Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm)
- Tissue roundworms
- Onchocerca volvulus (river blindness)
- Loa loa (eye worm)
- Wucheria bancrofti (lymphatic filariasis)
- Dracunculus medinensis (Guinea worm)
- Trichinella spiralis (pork worm)
- Ancylostoma braziliense and other spp. (cutaneous larva migrans, creeping eruption)
- Toxocara canis and Toxocara cani (visceral larva migrans)
- Baylisascaris procyonis
- Intestinal roundworms
Investigations
- Eosinophilia seen in tissue-invasive worms, not in those that live in the gut or in cystic structures
