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Adult Nematode Morphology with image (strongylids) Flashcards

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Name the nematode…

Small, hair-like worms, (7 mm) w/o cephalic inflations (wings), and virtually no buccal capsule

Spicules are short, twisted, and pointed

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Trichostrongylus sp.

  • Abomasa worm and 1st 6 meters of the small intestine
  • Ruminants, horses, and leporids (rabbit)
  • High host specificity
  • Commonly confused with Strongyloides and Cooperia
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Name the nematode…

Less the 14 mm long

Brown worms in cattle

Short, broad buccal cavity

Short 2 or 3 pronged spicules

Female tail is annulated with a vulvar flap (cuticular expansion)

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Ostertagia ostertagi

  • Live in the abomasum
  • Chronic abomasitis
  • Watery diarrhea, anemia, hypoproteinemia
  • Appetite remains intact
  • Die from malnutrition
  • Most important helminth parasite of cattle in the USA
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Less the 14 mm long

Brown worms in ruminants

Short, broad buccal cavity

Short 2 or 3 pronged spicules

Female tail is annulated with a vulvar flap (cuticular expansion)

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Teladorsagia spp.

  • Abomasal worm of ruminants
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Name the nematode…

Up to 30 mm in length

Buccal cavity has a lancet

Male has asymmetric dorsal ray in its bursa and short wedge-shaped spicules

Females have a prominent vulvar flap

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Haemonchus contortus, H. similis, and H. placei (USA)

  • Anemia
  • Can remove 1/5 of circulating RBC volume in a lamb per day
  • Non-fatal infection will lose 1/10 of blood volume per day
  • Widespread edema and bottle jaw
  • Still eating well
  • Do not lose appreciable weight
  • No diarrhea unless co-infected with another intestinal parasite
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Pigs and ruminants

Up to 30 mm in length

Buccal cavity has a lancet

Male has asymmetric dorsal ray in its bursa and short wedge-shaped spicules. Spicules are long and thin

Females have a prominent vulvar flap and close to anus

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Mecistocirrus sp.

  • Haemonchus contortus of pigs and ruminants in Central America, India, and Far East
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Name the nematode…

Less than 9 mm long

Small intestine

Cuticle of the mouth is striated and slightly inflated

Buccal cavity is small

Spicules are shorts and blunted

Bursa- dorsal ray is lyre-shaped (harp)

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Copperia oncophora- confused with Trichostrongylus and Strongyloides

Cooperia punctata

Most prevalent parasite in USA in cow/calf operations

Most infection asymptomatic

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Name the nematode…

  • 25m in length (similar size to Haemonchus)
  • Cuticle of the mouth is striated like Cooperia
  • Has a dorsal triangular tooth
  • Neck is usually coiled
  • Spicules are long and thin
  • Uterus has very large eggs
  • Female has a spine at the tip of her tail
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Nematodirus spathiger, N. filicollis, N. battus, and N. helvetianus (USA)

  • The dorsal triangular tooth differentiates it from Cooperia
  • Nematodirus battus-Very restricted seasonal terrible diarrhea in lambs
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Name the nematode…

  • Stomach parasite of pig, dog, cat (domestic and wild)
  • <1 mm, detected on biopsy
  • Chronic gastritis
  • Ovoviviparous
  • Autoinfection from ingestion of larvae in vomit
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Ollulanus tricuspis

  • Chronic gastritis in cats
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Name the nematode…

  • 80 mm, white worms of ruminants and horses
  • Buccal cavity is small
  • Bursa is reduced
  • Spicules are short, dark, and granular
  • Vulva is near the middle of the body
  • Eggs contain first stage larvae when laid (vermiform embryo), but usually hatches before it is eliminated in the feces
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Dictyocaulus viviparous (cattle)

Dictyocaulus filaria (sheep)

Dictiocaulus arnfeldi (equids)

  • Respiratory tract nematodes
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Equine

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Strongylus vulgaris

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Equine

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Strongylus equinus

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Equine

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Strongylus edentatus

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Equine

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Triodontophorus brevicala

(Large strongyle)

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Equine

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Tridontophorus serratus

(Large strongyle)

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Equine

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Oesophagodontus robustus

(Large strongyle)

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Equine

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Tridontophorus nipponicus

(Large strongyle)

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Equine

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Tridontophorus tenuicollis

(Large strongyle)

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Equine

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Gyalocephalus capitatus

(Large strongyle)

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Equine

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Coronocyclus coronatum

(Cyanthostominae)

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Equine

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Cyathostomum catinatum

(Cyanthostominae)

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Equine

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Cyanthostomum tetracanthum

(Cyanthostominae)

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Equine

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Coronocyclus labiatus

(Cyanthostominae)

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Equine

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Coronocyclus labratus

(Cyanthostiminae)

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Equine

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Cylicostephanus goldi

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Equine
Cyincostephanus asymetricus | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Cylicostephanus bidentatus | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Craterostomum acuticaudatum
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Equine
Cylicocyclus calicatus | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Cylicostephanus miniutus | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Cylicostephanus longibursatus | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Cylicocyclus nassatus | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Cylicocyclus ashworthi | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Cylicocyclus leptostomum | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Cylicocyclus elongatus | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Cylicocyclus ashworthi | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Cylicocyclus ultrajectinus | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Poteriostomum imparidentatum | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Poteriostomum ratzii | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Parapoteriostomum mettami | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Cylicodonotophorus bicoronatus | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Parapoteriostomum euprotus | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Cyanthostomum pateratum
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Equine
Cylinocyclus auriculatus | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Petrovinema poculatum | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Cylicocyclus radiatus | (Cyanthostominae)
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Equine
Cylicocyclus brevicapsulatus | (Cyanthostominae)
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Large intestinal nematode of ruminants
Oesophagostomum columbianum "Large intestine nodular worm"
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Large intestinal nematode of ruminants
Charbertia ovina "Nodular worms of large intestine"
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# Name the nematode... * Kidney worm of swine * Stout (2-40mm) parasite in the hepatic, renal, and perirenal tissues, axial musculature, and spinal canal of pigs and sometimes cattle * Buccal cavity is cup-shaped with 6-10 triangular teeth at its base * Gut is convoluted * Spicules are equal and short * Bursa is reduced * IH: Earthworms (facultative) or direct by L3
Stephanurus dentatus | (Kidney worm of swine)
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Small intestine of ruminants
Bunostomum spp.
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Small intestinal nematode of dogs
Ancylostoma caninum | (Subfamily Ancylostomatinae)
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Small intestinal nematode of dogs
Uncinaria stenocephala | (Subfamily Ancylostomatinae)
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Small intestinal nematode of cats
Ancylostoma tubaeforme | (Subfamily Ancylostomatinae)
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Small intestinal nematode of raccoons
Placoconus lotoris | (Subfamily Ancylostomatinae)
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Describe the life cycle and clinical sign of peracute hookworm infection in the neonate
* Passage of L3 from dam to puppy during nursing * Look good week one and then look like garbage on week 2 * Pale mucosa, soft to liquid diarrhea that is dark in color from blood * Do not lay eggs until 16th day of infection * May need to rely on coproantigen for detection * Guarded to poor px * Treatment * Blood transfusion to keep puppies alive enough for drugs to kick in * Administer anthelminthic at first signs of anemia * Begin HWP in bitches as near birth as possible * Treat with pyrantel until can begin labeled hookworm treatments * Bitches can be treated with 50mg/kg of fenbendazole from day 40 of gestation to 14th day of lactation
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Describe the life cycle and clinical signs of acute hookworm disease
* Occurs from sudden exposure of susceptible older ups to large numbers of infective larvae * Many eggs are found in the feces * Clinical signs precede eggs by 4 days
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Describe the life cycle and clinical signs of chronic compensated hookworm disease
* No clinical signs * Diagnosis is from the presence of hookworms eggs in feces and measurable reduction of RBCs count, Hb and PCV
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Describe the life cycle and clinical signs with Secondary (decompensated) hookworm disease
* Older dogs * Profound anemia is a malnourished or emaciated animal * Hookworms are a secondary problem especially with malnutrition * Anthelminthic require appropriate protein concentration
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* Large white worms of the bronchi and bronchioles of swine * Passed larvated eggs (L1) * IH: Earthworms * May not be an obligate IH * Treatment * Doramectin, ivermectin levamisole, fenbendazole
Metastrongylus spp.
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* Lives in the smaller bronchioles of sheep and goats * Males are brownish red and can be distinguished from D. filaria by longer comb-like spicules * Treat: Fenbendazole
Protostrongylus rufescens
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Tiny, embedded in the lung tissue or reactive nodules of sheep and goats Diagnosed via L1 on Baermann Treatment Moxidectin inj (sheep) Topical eprinomectin (goats)
Muellerius capillaris
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* Well developed bursa with large dorsal ray * Cuticle has lots of crenated folds (looks spiked or wrinkly) * \<16 mm long * Found in the bronchioles and bronchi of foxes, wolves, raccoon, and dogs
Crenosoma vulpis
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What is the life cycle and treatment of Alerostrongylus abstrusus?
Oviparious and deposit eggs in "nests" in the lung parenchyma of domestic cats * Males have stout spicules * L1 carried up the bronchial tree * Find L1 at 5-6 weeks after infection; Baermann or ZincSO4 * IH: Snail and slugs (2-5 weeks to develop to L3) * Paratenic host: Mice and birds * Treatment- * Ivermectin * Fenbendazole
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What is the life cycle of Angiostrongylus vasorum?
* L1 shed in feces and resemble A. abstrusus * IH: wide range of molluskan * After eating molluskan (L3) the larvae migrate to visceral lymph nodes * Molt in LN and migrate to the lungs and pulmonary arteries * PPP: 7 weeks * Diagnostics: Baermann, fecal float, Ag and Ab ELISA, qPCR
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What is the life cycle of Angiostrongylus cantonensis?
* L1 shed in the feces of rats and invade molluskan * Rats eat L3 in IH and make their way to the brain of the rat * Then molt and enter a vein to be carried to the heart and pulmonary arteries * Paratenic host: crustaceans and amphibian * Importance * If humans ingest snails the worms migrate to the brain causing eosinophilic meningitis and encephalomyelitis * IH: Giant African Snail (Achatina fulica) * 1/4 of rats in Baton Rouge are infected * Treatment: * None
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What is the life cycle of Angiostrongylus costaricensis?
Rodents in Central and South America L1 in feces IH: snails Clinical signs in people for ingestion of L3 in snails Lower right abdominal pain, fever, and vomiting
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What is the life cycle and treatment of Filaroides osleri?
* Nodules in the trachea and bronchi * Females deposit delicate eggs with L1 that hatch before being defecated out * L1's are directly infective and all 5 stages mature in the lungs * Can detect nodules at 2month * Find L1 with ZnSO4 at 6-7 months post-infection * Successful treatment * The disappearance of cough and air hunger with exercise * Resolution of nodules on the scope * No larvae in poop * Treatment: fenbendazole, ivermectin, and doramectin
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What is the life cycle and treatment of Filaroides hirthi?
* L1 is infective * L1s arrive in the lungs 6 hours after oral ingestion and travel by way of hepatic portal circulation and mesenteric drainage or both * Find L1 in fecal float 32-35 days post-infection * Treatment * 25 mg/kg albendazole x 5d

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