HELMINTH DISEASES
Ascariasis
- Caused by Ascaris lumbricoides
- Affects intestine of man.
- Transmitted by contaminated water, vegetable fruits etc.
- Symptoms - Internal bleeding, muscular pain, fever, anemia, blockage of intestinal passage.
- Diagnosis - stool test (egg present)
Filariasis or elephantiasis
- Caused by Wuchereria bancrofti and Wuchereria malayi
- Affects lymphatic vessels of the lower limbs, genital organs.
- Transmitted by biting of infected female culex mosquito.
- Symptoms- Chronic inflammation of the organs where they live, abnormal swellings of the lower limbs, scrotum, penis.
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