Essay about The Schistosomiasis Parasite in Contaminated Water

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The author describes the first time that her was familiar with eosinophils when she was eight years old in the shores of Lake Erie. In college, she was want to work in laboratory research. At nineteen, she received a grant to study hibernation in Maltese snails. After she continued make different research, in medical school her had taken an interest in infectious disease mostly with animals. And now twenty years, later, one of these was likely causing the fevers, hives, and liver pain in her Vietnamese patient the man with a worm in his flesh. A man who visited Vietnam is struck by a strange illness, and the doctor must use her detective skills to discover the cause and the doctor must use her detective skills to discover the cause. The Doctor treat Hanh’s worm, it just disappeared with albendazole, after several months Hanh’s eosinophil count gradually returned to normal, and he has been well ever since. Doctors and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the cause of the disease was when Hanh ate the raw cobra in a trip on the Nah Trang coast in is a coastal resort city in southern

In the early stages of heartworm, little to no symptoms will occur. Symptoms in most animals that will be noticed could be a mild persistent cough. The animal will have a decreased appetite. They could have a bulging chest due to excess fluid. They will experience weight loss and have difficulty breathing. They will have a reluctance to exercise and be fatigue. They could have an allergic reaction to the offspring of the worms. The worm(s) can cause blockage in the blood flow of the heart and cause the animal to collapse, this is mostly common to be the first sign to appear in cats. It is difficult to diagnose a cat for heartworm because they will experience the same symptoms that are used to diagnose other diseases in felines. This could include weight loss, fatigue, and difficulty breathing. Also, they could experience gagging and vomiting. Other signs that have been documented in heartworm are nose bleeds, secondary pneumonia, increased blood pressure, and excessive sleeping. It is rare that the worm(s) could get lost and end up in the brain or eyes and cause seizures, blindness, and lameness. Given the symptoms and clinical signs, we can move on to how heartworm is

They then lodge in the heart, lungs, and surrounding blood vessels and begin reproducing. Adult worms can grow up to 12 inches in length, can live 5-7 years, and a dog can have as many as 250 worms in its system.”

Affected people might not have an initial outbreak of symptoms until months or even years after being infected. For most carriers they will

Diphtheria is among a long list of thousands of micro-organisms that can cause human disease. Diphtheria is a respiratory disease that is caused by a bacteria called Corynebacterium diphtheriae. This bacteria is gram positive but does not have a typical gram positive cell wall, non-motile, and rod-shaped. For decades, this disease has taken the lives of mainly children, but adults as well. In 1735, people referred to it as the “plague of children” because nobody really knew what it was that was causing this disease. Until in 1826, Diphtheria was given its name by a french physician named Pierre Bretonneau. In 1883, Edwin Klebs was able to identify the bacteria that caused the deadly disease which is C. diphtheriae. Before Edwin

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hominis gets inside the intestinal tract. All we know is that the cyst wall thins out and thickens thorough the intestinal tract, and then it exits through the exertion in form of feces. Therefore, the parasite will be transmitted in many ways. But, the form that spreads the most parasite is the feces-oral method. For example, if someone uses the restroom and does not wash their hands, and afterwards they go into the kitchen and handle food they are spreading B. hominis to the person who will take the food. B. hominis has no know signs or symptoms. Someone who has B. hominis might not even know unless they are tested for it’; since, the symptoms are difficult to show. But, it is well known symptom that this parasite shows are diarrhea. In result of this, the parasite is carried through diarrhea or digestive

There are four types of Helminth Infections; in which, they consist of: Intestinal stress as the primary symptom, Intestinal distress accompanied by Migratory symptoms, Cysticercosis, and Schistosomiasis: liver disease. Intestinal stress as the primary symptom occurs when the intestinal tract gets infected; Intestinal distress by migratory symptoms occurs when the helminth enters the body, matures, then travels all throughout the intestines, circulatory and lymphatic systems, heart and lungs, respiratory tree, and throat; Cysticerosis is a tapeworm that attaches to the intestine; and Schistosomiasis occurs when the liver swells or malfunctions accompanied with eosinophilia. The diagnoses for helminthic infections and diseases are approached

The general life cycle of a lungworm begins with an ingestion of infective larvae. The infective larvae then penetrate the intestinal wall . From here larvae migrate into the lungs through the bloodstream. The infected larvae reside in the lungs until the development into an adult lungworm

By direct contact with feces of infected pig or human, which can infect many tissues. If the larvae get in the nervous system and the brain, it can result in neurocysticercosis.

Human tapeworm infestations are most common in regions where there is contaminated soil and water and where meat and fish are eaten raw or lightly cooked. In the United States the beef tapeworm is most common. The usual intermediate host is a cow, which ingests the proglottid while drinking or grazing. The embryo is equipped with sharp hooks, hatch and bore through the cow's intestinal wall into the bloodstream, where they are carried to the muscles. Each embryo encloses itself in a cyst, or bladder; at this stage it is called a bladder worm. During the bladder worm stage the embryo develops into a miniature scolex; it remains inside until the muscle is eaten by a primary host, in this case a human. If the scolex has not been killed by sufficient cooking of the meat, it sheds its covering and attaches to the intestinal wall, where it begins producing proglottids. An adult tapeworm consists of a knoblike head, or scolex, equipped with hooks for attaching to the intestinal wall of the host, a neck region, and a series of flat, rectangular body segments generated by the neck. proglottids break off and enter in the feces of the host, but new ones are constantly formed at the anterior end of the worm. As long as the scolex and neck are intact the worm is alive and capable of growth. A nervous system

Schistosomiasis is a serious disease that can become deadly if the proper treatments or preventions are neglected. It’s important to not be blind of the fact that diseases

The complexity of S. stercoralis’ life cycle begins with its alternation between free-living and parasitic cycles.1 When the soil is contaminated with the infective filariform larvae, humans get infected through the skin.1 The infective filariform larvae penetrate the human host and reach the small intestine, where they mature into adults and produce eggs through parthenogenesis.2 The eggs hatch in the small intestine and eventually become larvae that are passed in the stool.6 The rhabditiform larvae passed in the stool become either infective filariform larvae or into free-living adults that reproduce outside the host environment.6 Some rhabditiform larvae are not completely excreted in the host’s feces, and they reinvade the small intestine or perianal skin and cause autoinfection.6 With the ability to autoinfect the hosts, S. stercoralis is potentially dangerous and fatal. Most chronic infections remain

Cryptosporidium parvum is a protozoan intestinal parasite causing a short-term enteric illness in individuals with functioning immune systems, and can cause a potentially fatal infection in immunosuppressed individuals. Because of C. parvum’s resistance to many of the procedures used to process drinking water and food, and the parasite’s extremely high fecundity, the potential for a large scale outbreak is very high. In fact, C. parvum was responsible for an outbreak in Milwaukee in 1993 when an estimated 403,000 people became ill. This was the largest waterborne outbreak of disease in United States history. This paper will cover some aspects of C. parvum’s life cycle, human sickness