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Intestinal Hookworm Life Cycle
1) Eggs in feces
2) Rhabditiform larva hatches
3) Development to filariform larva in environment
4)
) Rhabditiform larva ... to filariform larva ... 4) Filariform larva ... Re-activated larvae ... Hookworm #Intestinal #lifecycle
Ascaris lumbricoides - Ascariasis Life Cycle
1) Adults in small intestine
2) Fertilized egg - Unfertilized egg (will
Embryonated egg with L3 larva ... intestine 6) Hatched larvae ... to lungs. 7) Larvae ... lumbricoides #Ascariasis #LifeCycle
Diphyllobothriasis - Diphyllobothrium Life Cycle
1) Unembryonated eggs passed in feces
2) Eggs embryonate in water
3) Coracidia hatch
4) Procercoid larvae ... fish Procercoid larva ... into plerocercoid larva ... Diphyllobothrium #LifeCycle
Cutaneous larva migrans skin Rash
25 F recent Caribbean vacation, walked barefoot on sand and now with
Cutaneous larva ... Cutaneous larva ... soil/sand, with larvae ... Cutaneous larva ... unable to complete lifecycle
Strongyloides fuelleborni Lifecycle
Free-Living Cycle
1) Eggs containing rhabditiform larvae passed in feces.
2) Rhabditiform larvae hatch in environment.
Strongyloides fuelleborni Lifecycle ... ) Rhabditiform larvae ... ; rhabditiform larvae ... ) Rhabditiform larvae ... #fuelleborni #LifeCycle
Strongyloides Stercoralis Lifecycle
Free-Living Cycle:
1) Rhabditiform larvae in the intestine are excreted in stool. 
2) Development into
Strongyloides Stercoralis Lifecycle ... ) Rhabditiform larvae ... ) Rhabditiform larvae ... ) Rhabditiform larvae ... #stercoralis #LifeCycle
Botfly Larvae on POCUS
JEM Case of the week: 22 yo previously healthy woman presents with an
Botfly Larvae on ... POCUS JEM Case ... that is a Botfly Larvae ... was found via POCUS ... #POCUS #clinical
POCUS Stewardship
Right Indication - Right Interpretation -Right Integration
Indication → Pre-test Probability → Spectrum of Disease →
POCUS Stewardship ... Indication → Pre-test ... Step 2: Pre-test ... Develop a pre-test ... assign a final post-test
Loiasis - Loa loa Life Cycle
1) Fly (genus Chrysops) takes a meal (L3 larvae enter bite
takes a meal (L3 larvae ... muscles 6) L1 larvae ... 7) L3 larvae ... Loiasis #Loaloa #LifeCycle
Filariasis - Life Cycle of Wuchereria bancrofti
1) Mosquito takes a blood meal
2) Adults in lymphatics
3) Adults
muscles 6) L1 larvae ... 7) L3 larvae ... bancrofti #filariasis #lifecycle