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| | #Redirect: [[Ascaris lumbricoides]] |
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| {{CMG}}; '''Associate Editor-In-Chief:''' Imtiaz Ahmed Wani, [[M.B.B.S]]; Fatimo Biobaku, [[M.B.B.S]]
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| For the '''microbiologic aspects''' of the causative organism, see [[Ascaris lumbricoides]]
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| ==Overview==
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| Ascariasis is a soil [[helminth]] infection caused by the [[nematode]] [[Ascaris lumbricoides]].<ref name="Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine">Kim, Kami; Weiss, Louis; Tanowitz, Herbert (2016). "Chapter 39:Parasitic Infections". Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine Sixth Edition. Elsevier. pp. 682–698. ISBN 978-1-4557-3383-5.</ref>
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| | | [[Category:Infectious disease]] |
| ==Causes==
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| ! '''Genus and Species'''
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| ! '''Ascaris lumbricoides'''
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| | width="200" align="center" | '''Common Name'''
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| | width="400" align="center" | Giant Intestinal [[Roundworm]]
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| | width="200" align="center" | '''Etiologic Agent of:'''
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| | width="400" align="center" | Ascariasis
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| | width="200" align="center" | '''Infective stage'''
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| | width="400" align="center" | Embryonated Egg
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| | width="200" align="center" | '''Definitive Host'''
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| | width="400" align="center" | Man
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| | width="200" align="center" | '''Portal of Entry'''
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| | width="400" align="center" | Mouth
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| | width="200" align="center" | '''Mode of Transmission'''
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| | width="400" align="center" | Ingestion of Embryonated egg through contaminated food or water
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| | width="200" align="center" | '''Habitat'''
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| | width="400" align="center" | Small Intestine
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| | width="200" align="center" | '''Pathogenic Stage'''
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| | width="400" align="center" | Adult Larva
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| | width="200" align="center" | '''Mode of Attachment'''
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| | width="400" align="center" | Retention in the mucosal folds using pressure
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| | width="200" align="center" | '''Mode of Nutrition'''
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| | width="400" align="center" | Feeding of [[Chyme]]
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| | width="200" align="center" | '''Pathogenesis'''
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| | width="400" align="center" | Larva – [[pneumonitis]], [[Löffler's syndrome|Loffler’s syndrome]];
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| Goes through a Blood-Lung Phase ([[Hookworm]] and [[Strongyloides stercoralis]] also have a blood-lung phase);
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| Adult worm– Obstruction, [[Liver abscess]], [[Appendicitis]].
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| | width="200" align="center" | '''Laboratory diagnosis'''
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| | width="400" align="center" | Direct Fecal Smear; Concentration methods such as [[Kato-Katz technique|Kato-Katz]]
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| | width="200" align="center" | '''Treatment'''
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| | width="400" align="center" | [[Albendazole]], [[Mebendazole]], or Pyrantel Pamoate
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| | width="200" align="center" | '''Diagnostic Feature - Adult'''
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| | width="400" align="center" | Female - prominent genital girdle
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| | width="200" align="center" | '''Diagnostic Feature - Egg'''
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| | width="400" align="center" | Coarse mammilated albuminous coating
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| ==References==
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