Diagnosis of Parasitic Conditions

Parasitic Conditions Diagnosis: Book Excerpts

• Diagnosis - Hookworm disease
• Diagnosis - Mycosis fungoides
• Diagnosis - Scabies
• Diagnosis - Scabies

Diagnostic Tests for Parasitic Conditions: Online Medical Books

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Hookworm disease: Diagnosis
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

CONFIRMING DIAGNOSIS Identification of hookworm ova in the stool confirms the diagnosis. Anemia suggests severe chronic infection.

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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005

Mycosis fungoides: Diagnosis
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

CONFIRMING DIAGNOSIS Clear diagnosis of MF depends on a history of multiple, varied, and progressively severe skin lesions associated with characteristic histologic evidence of lymphoma cell infiltration of the skin, with or without involvement of lymph nodes or visceral organs. Consequently, this diagnosis is commonly missed during the early stages until lymphoma cells are sufficiently numerous in the skin to show up in biopsy.

Other diagnostic tests help confirm MF: complete blood count and differential; a finger-stick smear for Sézary cells (abnormal circulating lymphocytes), which may be present in the erythrodermic variants of MF (Sézary syndrome); blood chemistry studies to screen for visceral dysfunction; chest X-ray; liver-spleen isotopic scanning; lymphangiography; and lymph node biopsy to assess lymph node involvement. These tests also help to stage the disease — a necessary prerequisite to treatment.

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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005

Scabies: Diagnosis
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

CONFIRMING DIAGNOSIS Visual examination of the contents of the scabietic burrow may reveal the itch mite. If not, a drop of mineral oil placed over the burrow, followed by superficial scraping and examination of expressed material under a low-power microscope, may reveal ova, or mite feces. However, excoriation or inflammation of the burrow often makes such identification difficult. If diagnostic tests offer no positive identification of the mite and if scabies is still suspected (for example, if family members and close contacts of the patient also report itching), skin clearing that occurs after a therapeutic trial of a pediculicide confirms the diagnosis.

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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005

Scabies: Diagnosis
(Handbook of Diseases)

Superficial scraping and examination, under a low-power microscope, of material that has been expressed from a burrow may reveal the mite, ova, or mite feces. However, excoriation or inflammation of the burrow can make such identification difficult.

If diagnostic tests offer no positive identification of the mite and if scabies is still suspected (for example, close contacts of the patient also report itching), skin clearing that occurs after a therapeutic trial of a pediculicide confirms the diagnosis.

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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003

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