Question

Infection of Ascaris usually occurs by
A) Tse-tse fly
B) Mosquito bite
C) Drinking water containing eggs of ascaris
D) Eating imperfectly cooked pork

Answer 1

Hint: Ascaris is a parasitic nematode worm genus known as the "small intestinal roundworms," which is a parasitic worm type.

Complete Answer:
- One fungus, Ascaris lumbricoides, is affecting humans and causing ascariasis to the disease. Usually, pigs are infected by another fungus, Ascaris suum. The equine roundworm Parascaris equorum is often generally referred to as an "ascarid".
- Their eggs are found in the soil and in the faeces. Plants with the eggs on them will kill any organism eating them. A. Lumbricoides is the largest roundworm in the intestine and is the most common human helminth infection worldwide.
- Infestation can cause morbidity by compromising nutritional status, disrupting cognitive processes, inducing reactions to tissue such as granuloma at larval stages, and causing fatal intestinal obstruction.
- The body is long, cylindrical, fusiform (pointed at both ends), the cuticle, epidermis, and musculature of the body wall. Presence of a pseudocoelom of the false body not lined by epithelium. Total digestive system.
- Respiration by mere diffusion. The nervous system is composed of a nerve ring and several longitudinal nerve cords.
- Just sexual intercourse. Gender is different from sexual dimorphism.
- Males tend to be shorter than females.

So the answer is ‘Drinking water containing eggs of ascaris’.

Note: Ascaris is an intestinal parasite that causes ascariasis symptoms of these diseases: internal bleeding, muscle pain, fever, anaemia and intestinal blockage.