They lymphatic system carries the larvae throughout the system via the blood stream, where they eventually encyst in striated muscle tissue. Mild gastrointestinal symptoms, painful respiration, heart muscle damage, muscle pain Trichuris trihiura , eggs Roundworm eggs are often characteristic of individual species, and are therefore diagnostic in identifying the infection. The ova of Trichuris trichiura are immature when passed in the feces of an infected host. The eggs require an 10-14 days in the soil to mature, at which point they are infective. When the ova are digested, the larvae emerge and develop into adults in the small intestine.
Light infestations are usually asymptomatic.
Massive infestations in children can produce bloody diarrhea, and systemic toxicity and other complications. Unsupervised children frequently contaminate the ground, and then later re-infect themselves or other children are infected when playing outdoors. To control whipworm infections, it is necessary to prevent infected human feces from contaminating the soil. Because this parasite is relatively large, it is made up of 16 images composited together.