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Patient with history of Kidney transplantation presenting with diarrhoea. (Image of worms given). The motility of the worms given in the figure. Correct statement about the organism is:
A. Monoecious and the organism related with parthenogenesis.
B. Transmitted by intake contaminated food and water.
C. Loffler’s pneumonia is not caused by the same organism.
D. Body gets this infection through filariform larvae.
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Ans. d. Body gets this infection through filariform larvae
Jawetz’s Medical Microbiology 27t) edn; Page no. 730
- The video depicts Rhabdtiform larvae of Strongyloides stercoralis.
- S. stercoralis is Dioecious and the organism related with parthenogenesis.
- Infective form is: filariform larvae (Eggs give rise to larva and develop into filariform larvae).
- Transmitted by skin penetration of filariform larvae