LAB QUIZ 4 (HELMINTHS) Flashcards
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means “parasitic worms”
helminths
nematodes -
cestodes -
trematodes -
- roundworms
- tapeworms
- flukes
have multiple proglottids, two brothria (grooves) with 2 intermediate host: crustaceans and fish
pseudophyllideans
posess cup like suckers called “acetabula”
cyclophyllideans
treatment for cestodes
- except for echinococcus for which albenzole is the drug of choice
PRAZIQUANTEL
“broad fish tapeworm”
- longest of the tapeworms
- eggs are oval ellipsoidal; an operculum at one end, and at the opposite is a small knob (ABOPERCULAR KNOB)
diphyllobothrium latum
called “pork tapeworm”
- four suckers, circle of hooks around a rostellum
- 5-10 primary uterine branches
taenia solium
called “beef tapeworm”
- four suckers, no hooks, no rostellum
-15-25 primary uterine branches
- cattle
taenia saginata
called “asian tapeworm”
- no hooks but with rostellum
- 11-32 primary uterine branches
- cows,goat,wild boar,monkey
taenia asiatica
called “dwarf tapeworm”
- most frequently found tapeworm in developed countries
- ingestion of cysticercoid larvae from infected rice or flour beatle
- these eggs are round or slightly oval, size 70-85x60-80 um, with a straight outer membrane
hymenolepsis nana
called “rat tapeworm”
- accidental parasite
- ingestion of RAT FLEA CYSTICERCOID LARVAE
- these eggs are oval and smaller than those of h. diminuta, with a range size of 30-50 um, inner membrane are two poles, which 4-8 polar filaments spread out between the two membranes
hymenolepsis diminuta
- most common tapeworm of dogs or cats
- transmission: dog or cat flea carrying cysticerci
- BARREL-SHAPED PROGLOTTIDS IN STOOL
dipylidium caninum
- scolex with four sucker and circle of hooks; ONLY THREE PROGLOTTIDS(one of the smallest tapeworms)
- transmit in ingestion of egg in food contaminated with dog feces
- UNICOLUCULAR HYDATID (Liver,lungs,brain)
- treatment: albendazpole, surgical resurrection)
echinococcus granulosus
- definitive host: foxes
- interm host: rodents
- transmit: accidental ingestion of fox feces
- MULTILOCULATED CYST (alveolar cyst, “honeycomb vesicles”)
echinococcus multilocularis
- flattened, leaf shaped, except schistosoma which are cylindrical
- are unsegment unlike cestodes with many proglottids
trematodes
small, LATERAL SPINE (knob)
schistosoma japonicum
large, LATERAL SPINE (prominent)
schistosoma mansoni
large, TERMINAL SPINE
schistosoma haematobium
- known as “japanese lung fluke”
- transmission: ingestion or raw crabmeat/crayfish
- intermediate host; snail antemelania asperata and mountain crab sundathelphusa phillipina
- disease; pragonimiasis
- operculated/unembryonated egg in sputum or feces
paragonimus westermani
- chinese liber fluke/oriental liver fluke
- intermediate host; snail and fish
- trans: ingestion of undercooked fish
- disease clonorchiasis
clonorchis sinensis
‘temperate liver fluke’
• Sheep-liver fluke; ingestion of watercress (or other
aquatic plants)
• Halzoun – painful pharyngitis
• Symptoms: due to the presence of adult worms in
the biliary tract (RUQ pain, fever, but mostly asymptomatic)
fasciola hepatica
- called “tropical liver fluke”
- adult worms and eggs are larger than F hepatica.
- in the ph, snail host are (LYMNAEA PHILIPPINENSIS AND LYMNAEA AURICULARIA RUBIGINOSA)
fasciola gigantica
• Giant intestinal fluke
• Intestinal parasite of pigs and humans
• Transmission: ingestion of encysted metacercariae
from aquatic plants
• Intermediate host: small planorbid snails in the genera
Hippeutis and Segmentin
fasciolopsis buski
- ingestion of raw fish containing cysts
- mimics peptic ulcer disease
heterophyes heterophyes