Roundworms or 'filarial nematodes' can enter either the lymphatics or blood vessels. You would expect which of the following as a sign/symptom of filiariasis? Choose from the following: (A) eosinophilia (B) anemia (C) thrombocytopenia
Roundworms or 'filarial nematodes' can enter either the lymphatics or blood vessels. You would expect which of the following as a sign/symptom of filiariasis? Choose from the following: (A) eosinophilia (B) anemia (C) thrombocytopenia
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Roundworms or 'filarial nematodes' can enter either the lymphatics or blood vessels. You would expect which of the following as a sign/symptom of filiariasis?
Choose from the following:
(A) eosinophilia
(B) anemia
(C) thrombocytopenia

Transcribed Image Text:Filariasis
(Brugia malay
Mosquito takes
a blood meal
a enter skin
Mosquito Stages
Human Stages
Migrate to head
and mosquito's proboscis
L3 larvae
O Adults in lymphatics
LI larvae
Aduts produce sheathed
microfilariae that neach
Mosquito takes
the blood stream
a blood meal
Microflariae shed sheaths
pentrate mosquito' midgut.
and migrate to thoracic muscles
rg raa)
A- Infective Stage
A-Diagnostic Stage
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