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    Roundworm (Ascaris Lumbricoides) : Morphology, Life Cycle & Laboratory Diagnosis

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    This document summarizes the morphology, life cycle, and laboratory diagnosis of roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides). The life cycle involves eggs being swallowed and hatching in the small intestine, with larvae migrating through the liver and lungs over 1-2 months before maturing into adults in the small intestine. Laboratory diagnosis can be done by examining stool samples for eggs or adult worms, sputum for migrating larvae, or blood tests for antibodies or eosinophilia during larval invasion.

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    This document summarizes the morphology, life cycle, and laboratory diagnosis of roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides). The life cycle involves eggs being swallowed and hatching in the small intestine, with larvae migrating through the liver and lungs over 1-2 months before maturing into adults in the small intestine. Laboratory diagnosis can be done by examining stool samples for eggs or adult worms, sputum for migrating larvae, or blood tests for antibodies or eosinophilia during larval invasion.

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    This document summarizes the morphology, life cycle, and laboratory diagnosis of roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides). The life cycle involves eggs being swallowed and hatching in the small intestine, with larvae migrating through the liver and lungs over 1-2 months before maturing into adults in the small intestine. Laboratory diagnosis can be done by examining stool samples for eggs or adult worms, sputum for migrating larvae, or blood tests for antibodies or eosinophilia during larval invasion.

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    Roundworm

    (Ascaris lumbricoides)
    Morphology, Life cycle &
    Laboratory diagnosis

    Morphology

    Fig. Male and female roundworm

    Life cycle
    Life cycle of Ascaris involves only 1 host.
    Natural host: Man. There is no
    intermediate host.
    Infective form: Embryonated eggs
    Mode of transmission
    Infection
    occurs
    when
    the
    egg
    containing the infective rhabditiform
    larva is swallowed.
    Through fresh vegetables grown in fields
    manured with human faeces (night soil)
    Dirty fingers; in children playing in soils

    Development in soil
    The eggs are resistant to adverse
    conditions and can survive for several
    years
    The development usually takes from 10
    40 days, during which time the embryo
    moults twice and becomes the infective
    rhabditiform larva, coiled up within the
    egg.
    Development in human
    When the swallowed eggs reach the
    duodenum, the larvae hatch out.
    The rhabditiform larva, about 250 m in
    length and 14m in diameter, are

    They penetrate enter the portal vessels


    carried to the liver.
    They then pass via the hepatic vein, inferior
    vena cava,
    and the right side of the
    heart(4 days) lungs, where they grow and
    moult twice.
    The larvae pierce the lung capillaries(10-15
    days)reach the alveoli carried up the
    respiratory passage to the throat and are
    swallowed.
    The larvae moult finally develop into
    adults in the upper part of the small
    intestine.
    Sexually mature in about 612 weeks and

    Life cycle
    (summary)
    Egg hatch 3rd stage larvae Hepatic
    portal vessels to liver (3-4 days) via
    Hepatic vein Inferior venacava Right
    heart Pulmonary artery Lungs (2nd
    on 5th day and 3rd moulting on 10th day)
    Lung alveoli Esophagus Stomach
    and localize in the upper part of the small
    intestine
    ( 4th moulting, on 25th to 29th
    day of infection)

    Fig. Life cycle of Ascaris


    lumbricoides

    Laboratory Diagnosis
    Done by following methods
    1. Parasitic diagnosis
    a) Demonstration of adult worm
    b) Demonstration of eggs
    c) Demonstration of larvae
    2. Serodiagnosis
    3. Eosinophilia

    1. Parasitic diagnosis
    Demonstration of adult worms
    Worm may be passed through anus,
    mouth, nose and rarely through ear
    Barium meal may occasionally reveal
    the presence of adult worms in the small
    intestine
    Demonstration of eggs
    Eggs may be detected in stool or
    duodenal bile aspirate by direct
    microscopy or after concentration of
    faces

    Demonstration of larvae
    Ascaris larvae may be detected in the
    sputum during the stage of migration

    2. Serodiagnosis
    Ascaris antibody can be detected by
    indirect haemagglutination (IHA) and
    immunofluorescence antibody (IFA) test
    These tests are useful for the diagnosis of
    extra- intestinal ascariasis like Loefflers
    syndrome

    3. Eosinophilia

    It is seen in larval invasion stage

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