Livestock Trematodes Flashcards
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Fasciola hepatica
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indirect life cycle intermediate host is snails PPP 10 weeks large operculated egg use sedimentation test liver fluke found in bile ducts about 3 cm anemia, bottle jaw, ascites, weight loss, anorexia can see egg DH is cattle
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Fascioloides magna
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indirect life cycle intermediate host is snails PPP 10 weeks large operculated egg use sedimentation test deer fluke in meaty part of liver problems occur in dead end host (cattle, horses, pigs) about 10 cm PPP 8 months need to eat snail, have contact with wildlife normally in deer and have no issues diagnosis--> necropsy larval stages--> clinical signs
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Paraphistomum spp
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indirect life cycle intermediate host is snails PPP 10 weeks large operculated egg use sedimentation test rumen fluke- ONLY IN RUMEN sometimes no egg found pink in rumen not very pathogenic diarrhea, enteritis, secondary clostridium infection, bottle jaw in juveniles
