Common Name Habitat Final Host Diagnos Infectiv MOT

tic Stagee Stage

CAPILLARIA Pudoc Worm Small Man Larva Larval Ingestion of raw and
PHILIPPINESIS intestine  and/or stages undercooked fish
Guitar, peanut Ova found
shaped  found in in the
stool infecte
d fish
TRICHINELLA PORK MUSCLE Small Pigs and Encysted Encyste Ingestion of
SPIRALIS ROUND WORM intestine  other larva d larva undercooked/raw meat
mammals
-GREATEST
EOSINOPHILIA
ANIKASIS Herring’s worm Whales/ Ingestion of raw fish
Dolphins infected with larva 
DIROFILARIA Dog
IMMITIS Heartworm  

DRACUNCULUS Guinea worm, Subcutaneo Intermediate ingestion of infected

MEDINENSIS Fiery Serpent us tissue Host: copepods 
of the Israelites Copepods
, Medina worm
, Dragon
worm , Serpent
Worm
PARASTRONGYLUS Rat Lungworm Intermediate Ingestion of Intermediate
CANTONENSIS Host : Host
Mollusks Snail 
Filarial Habitat Vector Specimen Microfilaria Periodicity
Worm
Wuchereria Lymphatics Culex Blood Sheathed Nocturnal
bancrofti fatigans Nuclei
Bancroft’s Extermities and absent in
Filarial worm genitals Anopheles tail
WOW spp.
BAYAG Aedes spp.

Brugia malayi Lymphatics Mansonia Blood Sheathed Nocturnal

Malayan spp. Tail with 2 separate nuclei Subperiodic
Filarial worm Anopheles
spp.
BABA MO
Loa loa Subcutaneous Chrysops Blood Sheathed Diurnal
Eye worm tissue fly / spp. Nucleus continuous up to the tip of the
tail
LUHA-LUHA Tabanid fly
CRY FLY Deer fly
Mango fly
Onchocerca Subcutaneous Simulium Skin snips Unsheathe Nonperiodic
volvulus tissue spp. d Nuclei
Blinding absent in
worm Black fly tail
Convoluted
Filaria

NO

SMALL INTESTINE CAPILLARIA

ASCARIS
STRONGYLOIDES
HOOKWORMS
TRICHNELLA SPIRALIS(ADULT) larva stage
Encysted in the host muscle
LARGE INTESTINE ENTEROBIUS
TRICHURIS

Unholy Three (HAT)

(Hookworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichiuris trichiura )

Heart-Lung Migration (ASH)

(Ascaris lumbricoides, Strongyloides stercoralis, Hookworm)

 Common Ova Habitat Final Host Diagnostic Infective MOT
Name Stage Stage
Ascaris Giant Vector of Small Man Ova found in Embryonat Ingestion of
intestinal Ascaris. intestine the stool ed egg embryonated
lumbricoides roundworm Flies and eggs:
Cockroache embryonates
s in soil

Trichuris Whipworm FOOTBALL/ Large Man Unembryona Embryonat Ingestion of

JAPANESE Intestine/Col ted Egg ed Egg Embryonated
trichiura - LANTERN on Egg (Fecal-
geohelminth Oral)
Hookworms Ancylostoma Ovoidal,thi Small Man Egg/larva L3/ Skin
duodenale n-shelled intestine Filariform Penetration
Larva
Necator “Morula
americanus ball"
formation

Strongyloides Threadworm (smallest Small Man Rhabditiform L3 Skin

nematode intestine larva larva/Filarif Penetration ;
stercoralis infecting orm larva Internal
man) Autoinfection :
chronic and
hyperinfection
Enterobius Pinworm, Oxyuris Large Man Embryonate Embryonat Inhalation,
Social worm, vermiculari Intestine d Egg ed Egg Ingestion,
vermicularis Society s Autoinfection
worm External
Autoinfection

TREMATODES

LIVER FLUKES 1. Fasciola hepatica

2. Fasciola gigantica
3. Clonorchis sinensis
4. Opistorchis viverrini
5. Opistorchis felineus

INTESTINAL FLUKES 1. Fasciolopsis buski

2. Heterophyes heterophyes
3. Echinostoma ilocanum

LUNG FLUKES 1. Paragonimus westermani

2. Paragonimus mexicanus
PANCREATIC FLUKE 1. Eurytrema pancreaticum
 BLOOD FLUKES 1. Schistosoma japonicum
2. Schistosoma mansoni
3. Schistosoma haematobium

Operculated, UNEMBRYONATED eggs Paragonimus,

Fasciola,
Fasciolopsis
Operculated, EMBRYONATED eggs Clonorchis,
Heterophyes,
Opistorchis
NON-OPERCULATED, EMBRYONATED eggs Schistosoma

CESTODES

Common Ova Habitat Final Host Diagnostic Infective MOT

Name Stage Stage
DIPHYLLOBOTHRI Broad or fish Largest Small Man Egg/Scolex Plerocercoi Ingestion
UM LATUM tapeworm tapewom Intestine (plerocercoid) d larva
of man

TAENIA Beef 15-20 Small Man Intermediate Cysticercus Ingestion of

SAGINATA Tapeworm Lateral intestine Host: Cattle bovis uncooked/
Branches and Camels raw beef

TAENIA SOLIUM Pork 7-13 Small Man Intermediate Cyslicercus Ingestion of

Tapeworm Lateral Intestine Host : Pig cellulosae measly pork
Branches and Man and
Embryonat
ed egg
HYMENOLEPIS Dwarf Smallest Small Man Direct : Ingestion of
NANA Tapeworm and most Intestine Embryonat Embryonated
common ed Egg egg/Cysticerco
Tapeworm Indirect : id Larva
of Man Cysticercoi
SMALL d Larva
GLOBULAR
HYMENOLEPIS Rat CLUB- Small Rat Cysticercoi Ingestion of
DIMUNTA Tapeworm SHAPED intestine d Larva Intermediate
hosts
Dipyllidium Dog Small Dog Cysticercoi Ingestion of
caninum tapeworm or Intestine d larva the Flea
Double-
pored
tapeworm
Echinococcus Hydatid Shortest Small Dog Ingestion of
granulosus worm tapeworm Intestine egg