Helminths: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 11:28, 13 December 2019

Flatworms (platyhelminths)
- Flukes (trematodes)
  - Schistosoma spp. (blood flukes)
  - Clonorchis (liver fluke)
  - Paragonimus (lung fluke)
  - Fasciola hepatica (intestinal fluke)
- Tapeworms (cestodes)
  - Intestinal tapeworms
    - Taenia solium (pork tapeworm)
    - 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)
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

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

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 ** '''Flukes''' (trematodes)
 *** ''[[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)
 *** Intestinal tapeworms