ENTO 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cardiac Output, Ivermectin, Albendazole
14 Oct 2016
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Nematodes: most are parasitic free-living and microscopic in every habitat on earth. Filarial worms transmitted by blood feeding insects medical importance for humans. Ex: wuchereria (91 % of cases) transmitted by culex quinquefasciatus, anopheles, and aedes, brugia (9% of cases) - lymphatic lariasis. Cases are primarily in central africa, west south america, and. As some of the worms mature within humans and cause elephantiasis some micro lariae are stuck in a phase so that they can be taken my mosquitos who feed on humans and pass on the disease to others. Micro laria migrate from the peripheral blood stream to the heart during certain times of the day/night - makes things dif cult because blood needs to be drawn at speci c times to obtain samples. Nocturnal sub-periodic: micro laria detectable always but higher density at night. Diurnal sub-periodic: micro laria detectable always but lower densities at night.
