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Helmintic Infections

M1 Infectious Diseases Sequence Vernon Carruthers

Cary Engleberg

Spring 2009

Infection vs. disease

• successful parasites live in, but do not kill their hosts

• protozoa multiply within hosts expression of disease depends on host

factors • helminths do not multiply within hosts

severity of disease depends on parasite burden and immunologic response to parasites

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Helminth forms

Egg

Cyst

Larva

Adults 4

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Helminth modes of entry

• Ingestion (eggs or cysts) • Arthropod bites (larvae) • Penetration of intact skin or

mucous membranes (larvae)

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Spread and tropisms

• Some parasites must migrate to certain locations within the host in order to complete their life cycle

• Non-human parasites, in humans, often fail to migrate properly and become “dead-end infections”

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Mechanisms for evading the host response

• antigenic variation - trypanosomes, malaria, giardia

•  intracellular infection - malaria, toxoplasma • encystation* - Toxoplasma, cestodes • camouflage - schistosomes • cleavage of ABs or C’ components - amoebae,

leishmania • suppression/redirection of the cellular immune

response - malaria, leishmania, schistosomes

* “cyst” has multiple meanings 8

Tissue damage and host response

• direct destruction of tissue • hypersensitivity reactions • eosinophila

– occurs with helminths, not protozoa – results from tissue migration

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Classification of helminths

Nematodes (roundworms)

Platyhelminthes (flatworms)

Trematodes (“flukes”)

Cestodes (“tapeworms”)

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Helmintic diseases • Intestinal

– Others – Strongyloides

• Invasive – Trichinosis – Filaria – Schistosomiasis

– Cysticercosis – Echinococcus

(autoinfection cycle)

(muscle pain, uncooked carnivores) (worms in lymphatics or under skin)

(liver or urinary tract granulomas and fibrosis)

(cysts in brain, seizures) (massive cysts in liver or lung)

roundworms

flukes

tapeworms

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Intestinal nematodes

Larvae pass through lungs

Larvae penetrate through intact skin

strongyloides hookworm

Eggs ingested

Trichiuris (whipworm) Enterobius (pinworm)

Larvae enter bloodstream

ascaris

Adult worms in the the intestine

Eggs

Larvae hatch from eggs

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Strongyloides life cycle Adult worms in the the intestine

Eggs

1st stage larvae hatch from eggs

Larvae penetrate through intact skin

Larvae enter bloodstream

Larvae pass through lungs

Larvae molt twice to form filariform larvae (infectious)

Autoinfection

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Strongyloides - clinical features

• uncomplicated – GI upset

• autoinfection • hyperinfection

– rash – bronchspasm, chest X-ray infiltrates – diarrhea – profound eosinophilia – recurrent Gram-negative bacteremia

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Trichinosis

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Trichinella spiralis - life cycle

• “cycle of carnivorism” among hogs and rats • humans ingest encysted larvae in infected,

undercooked pork • larvae exist in stomach and burrow into small

intestinal mucosa • adult males and female reemerge and produce

larvae which penetrate intestine and circulate in bloodstream

• larvae enter skeletal muscle cells and encyst

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Trichinosis cases, by source of infection, U.S.,1981

Pork products sausage 93 other 44 unspecified 9

Non-pork products hamburger 18 bear 10 other wild animals 7

Unknown 7 188 19

Clinical features of trichinosis

• Most common sxs: – muscle pain and tenderness – fever +/- chills – edema (often periorbital)

• >10% eosinophilia (often ~50%) • elevated creatine phosphokinase (CPK) • +/- chronic neurologic/myocardial sxs • self-limited (2% mortality)

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Treatment of trichinosis

• antihelmintic (albendazole) to kill any intestinal adults

• steroids to relieve inflammatory reactions

• antipyretics

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Filaria

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Life cycles of two types of filaria

Arthropod vector

Adult worm pairs

Larvae (microfilariae)

Lymph- mosquitoes peripheral circulate dwelling lymphatics in bloodstream (e.g, Wuchereria bancroftii )

Skin- biting flies skin nodules migrate through dwelling or migratory dermis

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Microfiliaria found in the blood of lymph dwelling species

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Long-term consequences of persistent lymph-dwelling filarial infection: Blockage of lymph drainage with chronic lymphedema (elephantiasis)

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Life cycles of two types of filaria

Arthropod vector

Adult worm pairs

Larvae (microfilariae)

Skin- biting flies skin nodules migrate through dwelling or migratory dermis (e.g., Onchocerca volvulus & Loa loa )

Lymph- mosquitoes peripheral circulate dwelling lymphatics in bloodstream (e.g, Wuchereria bancroftii )

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Black fly: vector of Onchocerciasis

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Snip site

O. volvulus microfilaria (a skin-dwelling species) in skin snip

Depigmentation due to chronic microfilarial production, degradation, and allergic host responses in the skin

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O. volvulus skin nodule removed and sectioned, showing cross-sections of male and female

adult worms (source of microfiliariae) 31

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Onchocerciasis (”River blindness”) 32

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Role of endosymbiont Wohlbachia sp. in filiaria infection

• Rickettsia-like organisms required for fecundity and viability of filaria

• Wohlbachia-free worms produce less inflammation in tissue (? LPS)

• Implications for rx: – ivermectin kills microfilaria only – tetracycline may destroy adult worms

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Schistosomiasis

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Geographic distribution of schistosomiasis

S. mansoni

S. hematobium

S. japonicum 35

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Schistosomiasis - life cycle

S.m. S.h. S.j.

Eggs Cercaria

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(snail) Pearson Scott Foresman, wikimedia commons

S. mansoni S. haematobium S. japonicum

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Events following cercarial penetration 1.  Larva migrate to lungs and develop as “schistosomulae” (this may trigger a self-limited febrile illness).

2.  Male and female schistomulae migrate to the abdominal venules: I.  Superior mesenteric (S. japonicum) II.  Inferior mesenteric (S. mansoni) III.  Bladder plexus (S. hematobium)

3.  Males and females pair off and egg production begins

4.  Eggs migrate out of the body through visceral organs or become trapped and die in tissues.

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Immune response to schistosoma infection

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“pipestem” fibrosis 46

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Schistosomiasis - pathogenesis

• egg granuloma (type IV reaction)--> fibrosis • morbidity ~ worm (egg) burden • concomitant immunity to schistosomula • adult worms: invisible to the immune

system (survive for years)

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Schistosomiasis- clinical features

• Cercarial dermatitis • Intestinal schistosomiasis (granulomas -->

polyps, protein loss, malabsorption, strictures) • Hepatosplenic schistosomiasis (portal

hypertension --> ascites, varices, splenomegaly, normal hepatic function)

• Urinary schistosomiasis (hematuria, chronic infection, obstruction)

• Other (cardiopulmonary, CNS, etc.)

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Drug treatment of schistosomiasis

• Praziquantel increases permeability of adult parasite to Ca++.

• Tetanospasm --> death

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Cestode infections

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Tapeworms

• Definitive hosts: harbor adult worms • Intermediate hosts: harbor tissue cysts

(containing worm heads) • Humans acquire infection two ways:

– ingestion of eggs from feces (to acquire tissue cysts)

– ingestion of tissue cysts in undercooked meat (to acquire a tapeworm)

= Intermediate host = Definitive host

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Taeniasis

Tapeworm Cysticercosis

poor hygiene

poor sanitation

ingestion of undercooked pork

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Cysticerci Hydatid Cyst

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Isolated cysticerci Hydatid cyst

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Duane Newton

Echinococcosis

Cystic Hydatid Disease

contact with dogs

ingestion of entrails

ingestion of eggs in pastures

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Treatment of cysticercosis and echinococcosis

• Antihelminthic therapy (e.g., albendazole, praziquantel)

• (Echinococcus only) – Surgical removal – Irrigation-evacuation of cysts

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Comparison of pork tapeworm and Echinococcus life cycles

Definitive hosts (adult tapeworms)

Intermediate hosts (tissue cysts)

Dead-end hosts

Dog

Sheep

Human

Pig

Human

Human

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