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Parasitic Nematodes and Their Impact on Global Health

Explore the world of nematodes and their role in neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). This educational content delves into the biology and impact of nematodes, enhancing understanding of parasitic infections and their global...

Questions: 12 | Attempts: 11 | Last updated: Aug 4, 2025

Sample Question 1
What is the most likely worm infection in the 7-yr old boy in Brasil?

Ascariasis Lumbricoides (roundworm): most prevalent parasite worldwide and mostly in kids 5-15, Loeffler’s asthma/eopsinophilia is seen during pulmonary migration, high burden of worms causes abdominal pain and chronic growth impairment Transmission: he ingested eggs in soil/water witch migrated through GI->Lung-> SI ID: fecal smear

Hookworm infection: transmitted through skin penetration, can cause abdominal pain and growth impairment.

Tapeworm infection: acquired through ingesting contaminated food, not typically associated with asthma or pulmonary migration.

Trichinellosis (trichinosis): transmitted through eating undercooked infected meat, does not typically cause asthma-like symptoms or abdominal pain.

Sample Question 2
Working in tropical Vietnam a 10 year old girl comes in with rectal prolapse. She has been having dysentery for weeks. You run blood tests and she has no eosinophilia. He mom says the little often eats dirt. What is the parasite causing these symptoms?

Thrichuris trichiura (whipworm) Rectal P: Because trichuriasis lives in the colon and caused children to feel the need to deficate No Eosinophilia: There is no migration of trichuriasis. It stays in the colon Second most common parasite in the world behing Ascariasis (holy trinity) Holy (trinity) Shit (rectal prolapse) that’s tric-y tric-y

Ascaris lumbricoides (roundworm)

Schistosoma mansoni (blood fluke)

Entamoeba histolytica (amoeba)

Sample Question 3
You're Zanzibar. A pregnant woman comes in iron deficiency anemia and protein malnutrition. She eats a balanced diet. She has also brought along her cousin who has now grown in the past year and is showing memory and cognition deficits. You perform a fecal smear to ID the parasite.

Roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides)

Hookworm (Nacator sp.) Life-cycle: Larvae live in soil and penetrate the skin migrate through the lung and live in the SI where the suck blood and cause iron deficiency. Deficits: Women and children have low iron stores, so blood sucking=iron deficiency

Tapeworm (Taenia sp.)

Whipworm (Trichuris trichiura)

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