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Raw or undercooked pork, affects striated muscles
Larvae crawl under skin, calabar swelling, worms in eyes
Native to eastern europe, west africa, subconjunctival hemorrhages
Pruritic nodules, lesions in eyes leading to blindness
Loss of subcutaneous elastic tissue, wrinkled skin, hanging groin
Nurse cells, cysts with fibrous capsules in striated muscle
Transmitted by Female Blackfly (simulium)
Increases eosinophils, two genders, females larger
Travel in blood to lungs, migrate to trachea
Larvae differentiate into male and female adults
Problem for immunocompromised individuals, severe malnourishment
Located in rural southern states, attach to intestinal walls
Diagnosis: Blood smear taken at night, microfilariae
Ground itch, microcytic anemia, pneumonia, eggs in stool
Inflammation, blistering, ulceration of skin, meter long
Site of infection T vaginalis(flagellate) Trichomoniasis
2nd most common helminth in the US, ⅓ of population infected
Eosinophilic exudate, fever, cough, eosinophilia
Attach to wall, feed from intestinal wall capillaries
Develop into rhabditiform larvae, filariform larvae