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| | #Redirect: [[Ascaris lumbricoides]] |
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| {{CMG}}; '''Associate Editor-In-Chief:''' Imtiaz Ahmed Wani, [[M.B.B.S]]
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| ==Overview==
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| ==Causes==
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| ! '''Genus and Species'''
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| ! '''Ascaris lumbricoides'''
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| |width="200pt" align="center"| '''Common Name'''
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| |width="400pt" align="center"| Giant Intestinal Roundworm
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| |width="200pt" align="center"| '''Etiologic Agent of:'''
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| |width="400pt" align="center"| Ascariasis
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| |width="200pt" align="center"| '''Infective stage'''
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| |width="400pt" align="center"| Embryonated Egg
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| |width="200pt" align="center"| '''Definitive Host'''
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| |width="400pt" align="center"| Man
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| |width="200pt" align="center"| '''Portal of Entry'''
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| |width="400pt" align="center"| Mouth
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| |width="200pt" align="center"| '''Mode of Transmission'''
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| |width="400pt" align="center"| Ingestion of Embryonated egg through contaminated food or water
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| |width="200pt" align="center"| '''Habitat'''
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| |width="400pt" align="center"| Small Intestine
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| |width="200pt" align="center"| '''Pathogenic Stage'''
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| |width="400pt" align="center"| Adult Larva
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| |width="200pt" align="center"| '''Mode of Attachment'''
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| |width="400pt" align="center"| Retention in the mucosal folds using pressure
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| |width="200pt" align="center"| '''Mode of Nutrition'''
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| |width="400pt" align="center"| Feeding of [[Chyme]]
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| |width="200pt" align="center"| '''Pathogenesis'''
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| |width="400pt" align="center"| Larva – pneumonitis, Loeffler’s syndrome;
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| Adult – Obstruction, Liver abscess, [[Appendicitis]]. With Blood-Lung Phase along with Hookworms and Strongyloides stercoralis.
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| |width="200pt" align="center"| '''Laboratory diagnosis'''
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| |width="400pt" align="center"| Concentration methods and Direct Fecal Smear: Kato-Katz
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| |width="200pt" align="center"| '''Treatment'''
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| |width="400pt" align="center"| [[Albendazole]], [[Mebendazole]], or Pyrantel Pamoate
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| |width="200pt" align="center"| '''Diagnostic Feature - Adult'''
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| |width="400pt" align="center"| Female - prominent genital girdle
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| |width="200pt" align="center"| '''Diagnostic Feature - Egg'''
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| |width="400pt" align="center"| Coarse mammilated albuminous coating
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| ==Gallery==
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| Image: Ascariasis01.jpeg| Magnified 128X, this photomicrograph revealed some of the ultrastructural features displayed by a fertile Ascaris lumbricoides egg. A. lumbricoides is the largest nematode (roundworm) parasitizing the human intestine. <SMALL><SMALL>''[http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp From Public Health Image Library (PHIL).] ''<ref name=PHIL> {{Cite web | title = Public Health Image Library (PHIL) | url = http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp}}</ref></SMALL></SMALL>
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| ==References==
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