Parasites common name/known infection

giant intestinal roundworm

Ascaris lumbricoides

ancylostoma duodenale

Old world hookworm

necator americanus

New world hookworm

ancylostoma caninum and braziliense

dog: caninum hw cat: brazil

ancylostoma ceylanicum

golden hamster hookworm

toxocara cati and canis

cat and canine

pinworm/seat worm/daycare worm/kindergarten worm/familial worm/social worm/community worm

enterobius vermicularis

whipworm

Trichuris trichiura

cochin china worm/retro infection worm.

Threadworm

Strongyloides stercoralis

threadworm

strongyloides stercoralis

mystery worm, bag sit worm

Pudoc worm

Capillaria philippinensis

pudoc worm

capillaria philippinensis

rat / rodent lung worm

angiostrongylous cantonensis

muscle worm

Trichinella spiralis

malayan elephantiasis

brugia malayi

blinding worm

Onchocerca volvulus

african eyeworm

Loa loa

bancroftial elephantiasis

wuchereria bancrofti

old man with glasses/smiley face/dennis racket without handle

giardia lamblia

shepherd's crook, nipple or lemon shaped cyst

chilomastix mesnili

vaginal flagellate

Trichomonas vaginalis

oral flagellate, intestinal flagellate

Trichomonas tenax

WASS (west african sleeping sickness)

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

EASS: EAST AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS

Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

american trypanosomiasis

Chaga’s disease

Trypanosoma cruzi

chaga's disease

Trypanosoma cruzi

-old world cutaneous leishmaniosis

-dehli boil

-pian bois

-oriental sore

-uta sore

L. tropica

-new world cutaneous leishmaniasis

-chiklero ulcer

L. mexicana

mucocutaneous leishmaniasis

espundia

L. braziliensis

kala-azar

black fever

visceral leishmanias

BTM: BENIGN TERTIAN MALARIA

plasmodium ovale, plasmodium vivax

BQM: benign quartan malaria

P. plasmodium malariae

MTM: malignant tertian malaria

plasmodium falciparum

chinese/oriental liver fluke

Clonorchis sinensis

cat liver fluke

Opisthorchis felineus

temperate/ship liver fluke

fasciola hepatica

giant intestinal fluke

Fasciolopsis buski

tropical/ giant liver fluke

fasciola gigantic

garrison's fluke

echinostoma ilocanum

von siebold's fluke

small fish fluke

heterophyes heterophyes

vesical /vesicle blood fluke

schistosoma haematobium

manson's blood fluke

Schistosoma mansoni

oriental fluke

schistosoma japonicum

oriental lung fluke

paragonimus westermani

broad fish tapeworm

largest tapeworm

D. latum

pork tapeworm

Taenia solium

beef tapeworm

Taenia saginata

dwarf tapeworm

smallest tapeworm

H. nana

Rat tapeworm

Hymenolepis diminuta

hyadatid tapeworm

echinococcus granulosus

fox

E. multilocularis

pregnant tapeworm

dog tapeworm

D. caninum

PTB-like illness in alcoholic males of Sorsogon

P. westernmanni

smaller, with bipolar thickenings and bipolar filaments (egg)

H. nana (egg)

larger, with bipolar sickenings without bipolar filaments (with fan-like hooklets

H. nana

what to do with the stool beyond 1 hour

refrigerate (but never freeze)

T. saginata gravid proglottid

15-20

or

13-20

T. solium gravid proglottid

7-12 or 7-15

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finger like proglottids

T. solium

alcohol-sensitive proglottids

taenia spp

a boy died of severe anemia in the philippines, what is the possible causative species?

tropic: spirometra sparganum

temperate: D. latum

taiwan taenia in aborigines

taenia asiatica