- 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