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* Flatworms (platyhelminths)
* '''Flatworms''' (platyhelminths)
** Flukes (trematodes)
** '''Flukes''' (trematodes)
*** ''[[Schistosoma]]'' spp. (blood flukes)
*** ''[[Schistosoma]]'' spp. (blood flukes)
*** ''Clonorchis'' (liver fluke)
*** ''Clonorchis'' (liver fluke)
*** ''Paragonimus'' (lung fluke)
*** ''Paragonimus'' (lung fluke)
*** ''Fasciola hepatica'' (intestinal fluke)
*** ''Fasciola hepatica'' (intestinal fluke)
** Tapeworms (cestodes)
** '''Tapeworms''' (cestodes)
*** Intestinal tapeworms
*** Intestinal tapeworms
**** ''[[Taenia solium]]'' (pork tapeworm)
**** ''[[Taenia solium]]'' (pork tapeworm)
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**** ''Echinococcus multilocularis'' (alveolar hydatid disease)
**** ''Echinococcus multilocularis'' (alveolar hydatid disease)
**** Cysticercus (larvareal ''Taenia solium'')
**** Cysticercus (larvareal ''Taenia solium'')
* Roundworms (nematodes)
* '''Roundworms''' (nematodes)
** Intestinal roundworms
** Intestinal roundworms
*** ''[[Ascaris lumbricoides]]'' (great roundworm)
*** ''[[Ascaris lumbricoides]]'' (great roundworm)

Revision as of 11:37, 16 August 2019

  • Flatworms (platyhelminths)
    • Flukes (trematodes)
      • Schistosoma spp. (blood flukes)
      • Clonorchis (liver fluke)
      • Paragonimus (lung fluke)
      • Fasciola hepatica (intestinal fluke)
    • Tapeworms (cestodes)
  • Roundworms (nematodes)
    • Intestinal roundworms
      • Ascaris lumbricoides (great roundworm)
      • Necator americanus (New World hookworm)
      • Ancylostoma duodenale (Old World hookworm)
      • Strongyloides stercoralis (threadworm)
      • 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

Investigations

  • Eosinophilia seen in tissue-invasive worms, not in those that live in the gut or in cystic structures