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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
*Colloquially known as | *Colloquially known as Pinworm (United States), Treadworm (UK and Australia) or Seatworm | ||
**Medical infectious name: Enterobiasis | |||
*World wide distribution | *World wide distribution | ||
*Risk factors (prevalence can reach up to 50% in these populations): | *Risk factors (prevalence can reach up to 50% in these populations): | ||
Revision as of 03:58, 4 January 2015
Background
- Colloquially known as Pinworm (United States), Treadworm (UK and Australia) or Seatworm
- Medical infectious name: Enterobiasis
- World wide distribution
- Risk factors (prevalence can reach up to 50% in these populations):
- Age under 18
- Institutionalized
- Cohabitation with infected individual
- Humans only known reservoir
- Transmitted by fecal-oral route
- Can survive outside of body for up to 3 weeks
Clinical Features
- Pruritus Ani (intense itching of the perianal region)
- Rarer symptoms include abdominal pain, appendicitis and infection of the female genital tract
Diagnosis
- Tape test
- Most common
- Touch transparent tape to the perianal region and examine for eggs under the microscope
- Can also test by examining scrapings under pt's fingernails or examining perianal region 2-3 hours after patient falls asleep
- Stool analysis does not work because of low egg burden in stool
DDx
- Idiopathic pruritus ani
- Helminth infections
- Rectal Tenesmus
Treatment
- Mebendazole
- Albendazole
See Also
Source
- wikipedia:Enterobiasis
- wikipedia:Pinworm
- http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/pinworm/
- Rosen's Emergency Medicine, Chapter 133, Parasitic infections