| Group | Species | Common Name | Exposure | Treatment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platyhelminths: trematodes (flukes) | ||||
| lung flukes | Paragonimus | lung fluke | seafood, especially crayfish or crab in Southeast Asia | praziquantel |
| liver flukes | Fasciola hepatica | common or sheep liver fluke | underwater vegetation, especially watercress, near sheep-rearing in South America, Europe, and Middle East | triclabendazole |
| Opisthorchis viverrini | Southeast Asian liver fluke | freshwater fish in Southeast Asia | praziquantel or albendazole | |
| Clonorchis sinensis | Chinese liver fluke | fish in Southeast Asia and eastern Russia | praziquantel or albendazole | |
| intestinal flukes | Fasciolopsis buskii | water vegetables, especially watercress, bamboo, and water chestnuts in China, India, Thailand, and Bangladesh; pig reservoir | praziquantel | |
| Metagonimus | fish in Middle and Far East | praziquantel | ||
| Heterophyes heterophyes | eating undercooked fresh/brackish water fish in Egypt and Middle and Far East | praziquantel | ||
| blood flukes | Schistosoma haematobium | blood fluke | freshwater in Africa and the Middle East | praziquantel |
| Schistosoma mansoni | blood fluke | freshwater in Africa, the Middle East, and South America | praziquantel | |
| Platyhelminths: cestodes (tapeworms) | ||||
| pseudophyllideans | Diphyllobothrium latum | fish tapeworm | undercooked/smoked/pickled fish in Scandinavia, Siberia, Russia, Japan, Chile, and Uganda | praziquantel |
| intestinal cyclophyllideans | Taenia solium | pork tapeworm | eating undercooked pork | |
| Taenia saginata | beef tapeworm | eating undercooked beef | ||
| Hymenolepis nana | dwarf tapeworm | praziquantel | ||
| tissue cyclophyllideans | Echinococcus granulosus | hydatid worm | albendazole | |
| Echinococcus multilocularis | alveolar hydatid disease | albendazole | ||
| Taenia solium | cysticercosis | eating soil contaminated with pig or human feces | albendazole or praziquantel | |
| Nematodes (roundworms) | ||||
| filarial roundworms | Onchocerca volvulus | river blindness | ivermectin | |
| Loa loa | eye worm | diethylcarbamazine | ||
| Wuchereria bancrofti | lymphatic filariasis | diethylcarbamazine | ||
| Brugia malayi | lymphatic filariasis | diethylcarbamazine | ||
| Brugia timori | lymphatic filariasis | diethylcarbamazine | ||
| Mansonella perstans | maybe doxycycline | |||
| Mansonella streptocerca | maybe doxycycline | |||
| Mansonella ozzardi | maybe doxycycline | |||
| intestinal roundworms | Ascaris lumbricoides | great roundworm | albendazole or mebendazole or ivermectin | |
| Necator americanus | New World hookworm | albendazole or mebendazole or pyrantel pamoate | ||
| Ancylostoma duodenale | Old World hookworm | albendazole or mebendazole or pyrantel pamoate | ||
| Strongyloides stercoralis | threadworm | immunosuppression in a person who has ever spent time on a tropical beach | ivermectin ± albendazole | |
| Trichuris trichiura | whipworm | albendazole | ||
| Enterobius vermicularis | pinworm | albendazole or mebendazole or pyrantel pamoate | ||
| Capillaria | mebendazole | |||
| Trichostrongylus | pyrantel pamoate | |||
| Anisakis | anisakidosis | endoscopic removal | ||
| Gongylonema | gullet worm | ingestion of food or water contaminated by sheep or pig feves | surgical removal or albendazole | |
| tissue-invasive roundworms | Trichinella spiralis | pork worm | eating undercooked pig, boar, or bear meat | albendazole plus steroids |
| Anyclostoma braziliense | cutaneous larva migrans | albendazole or ivermectin | ||
| Ancylostoma caninum | eosinophilic enterocolitis | albendazole or mebendazole or endoscopic removal | ||
| Dracunculus medinensis | Guinea worm | none | ||
| Toxocara | visceral larva migrans | albendazole or mebendazole | ||
| Angiostrongylus cantonensis | rat lungworm | controversial | ||
| Gnathostoma | albendazole or ivermectin ± surgical removal | |||
| Baylisascaris procyonis | raccoon roundworm | albendazole + steroids | ||
Investigations
- Eosinophilia seen in tissue-invasive worms, not in those that live in the gut or in cystic structures
Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Pages in category "Helminths"
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