Parasitology Reviewer: Monica Kristine Reyes
Parasitology Reviewer: Monica Kristine Reyes
Parasitology Reviewer: Monica Kristine Reyes
Unfertilized egg
Fertilized eggs
Adult Trichuris
• Male has COILED posterior end
• Habitat: found in colon; mainly in cecum
Trichuris egg
• Prominent BIPOLAR plugs
Capillaria egg
• With FLAT bipolar plugs (similar to Trichuris na
bipolar pero mas flat)
• STRIATED capsule
BUCCAL CAPSULE: hookworms
Acylostoma duodenale
Necator Americanus
Hookworm egg
Enterobius egg
Microfilaria
Ancylostoma duodenale
• 2 pairs of teeth
Lateral branches: 15
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