Intestinal Nematodes (Roundworms)  chapter 51

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7. The intestinal nematode considered capable of vertical transmission

Chapter Review and the potential cause for congenital infections is:
a. Ascaris lumbricoides
1. The filariform larva is the infective stage for:
b. Enterobius vermicularis
a. Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichostrongylus spp.
c. Trichuris trichiura
b. Ascaris lumbricoides, Strongyloides stercoralis
d. Ancylostoma duodenale
c. Ancylostoma duodenale, Strongyloides stercoralis
d. Trichuris trichiura, Necator americanus 8. True or False
_____ a.  The severity of clinical signs and symptoms associated
2. Enterobius vermicularis infection is diagnosed by:
with intestinal nematode infections is often related to the
a. Identification of eggs in a concentrated stool specimen
level of worm burden.
b. Wet prep and iodine stain of a fresh stool specimen
_____ b. Löffler’s syndrome is only associated with A. lumbricoides
c. The Baermann funnel method
infections.
d. Cellophane tape and microscopic slide preparation
_____ c. Strongyloides stercoralis can be differentiated from
3. A stool specimen was collected at 8 pm from a patient. Following hookworm by its short buccal capsule and prominent
collection the specimen was not submitted to the laboratory until 11 genital primordium.
pm. The laboratory technologist found larvae with a long buccal cavity _____ d. Trichuris trichiura, whipworm, is often easily identified by
and a small, reduced genital primordium in the fecal sample. The passing the adult worm in feces.
larvae are most likely:
9. Matching: Match each term with the correct description.
a. Ancylostoma duodenale
b. Strongyloides stercoralis _____ autoinfection a. asexual reproduction
c. Trichuris trichiura _____ whipworm b. no person-to-person transmission
d. Unable to determine _____ mammillated ovum c. A. lumbricoides
_____ C. philippinensis d. egg-producing female
4. Which of the following intestinal nematodes is transmitted through _____ sexual transmission e. reinfection from endogenous source
the ingestion of infective eggs? _____ attachment by teeth f. S. stercoralis
a. Trichostrongylus spp. _____ indirect life cycle g. culture technique
b. Ascaris lumbricoides _____ Harada-Mori h. concentration method
c. Capllaria philippinensis _____ A. duodenale i. T. trichiura
d. Strongyloides fuelleborni _____ parthenogenesis j. hookworm
5. Which of the following roundworms is capable of autoinfection, _____ cutting plates k. prominent polar plugs
hyperinfection, and a heavy worm burden with characteristic larval _____ Baermann funnel l. N. americanus
migration required in the life cycle? _____ gravid m. migration not required during
a. Ancylostoma duodenale _____ copulatory bursa maturation
b. Enterobius vermicularis _____ T. trichiura n. A. duodenale
c. Strongyloides stercoralis o. seafood
d. Ascaris lumbricoides
6. A 4-year-old child presents to the physician. The mother claims the
child has been persistently irritable and has not slept well in
approximately 2 weeks. The child attends day care regularly, and the
mother states that the day care provider has claimed there have
been no other children complaining of illness. A urine sample was
collected, and upon microscopic analysis an oval, flat-sided ovum
was identified. The most probable diagnosis is:
a. Taenia solium
b. Enterobius vermicularis
c. Schistosoma japonicum
d. Ascaris lumbricoides

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