TREMATODES Flashcards
These are flatworms commonly known as
FLUKES
With oral and ventral sucker (acetabulum)
TREMATODES
Body is covered by an ? which often bears spines, tubercles
Integument
4 types trematodes habitat
BLOOD, LUNG, LIVER, INTESTINAL FLUKES
BLOOD FLUKE INFECTIVE STAGE
FORK TAILED CERCARIA
BLOOD FLUKE MODE OF TRANSMISSION
SKIN PENETRATION
BLOOD FLUKE # OF HOST REQUIRED
2 HOST
1 Intermediate Host
Snails / Mollusks
Oriental Blood Fluke
Schistosoma japonicum
Vesical Blood Fluke
Schistosoma haematobium
Manson’s Blood fluke
Schistosoma mansoni
INFECTIVE STAGE OF PULMONARY OR LUNG FLUKE, LIVER OR HEPATIC FLUKE, INTESTINAL FLUKE
METACERCARIA
MODE OF TRANSMISSION OF PULMONARY OR LUNG FLUKE, LIVER OR HEPATIC FLUKE, INTESTINAL FLUKE
INGESTION
OF HOST REQUIRED IN PULMONARY OR LUNG FLUKE, LIVER OR HEPATIC FLUKE, INTESTINAL FLUKE
TOTAL INTERMEDIATE HOST OF LIVER, LUNG AND INTESTINAL FLUKES
Total # of Hosts = 3
1 Definitive Host
Man
2 Intermediate Hosts (varies species)
1 IH = SNAILS
2 IH = it could be fish, snails, crabs or fresh water , vegetation
Oriental Lung fluke
Paragonimus westermani
3 LIVER OR HEPATIC FLUKE
Fasciola hepatica , Clonorchis sinensis, Opistorchis felineus
4 INTESTINAL FLUKE
Fasciolopsis buski, Echinostoma ilocanum , Heterophyes Hetereophyes , Metagonimus yokogawai
Sheep Liver Fluke
Fasciola hepatica
Chinese Liver Fluke
Oriental Liver Fluke
Clonorchis sinensis
Cat Liver Flukes
Opistorchis felineus
Busk Fluke
Fasciolopsis buski
Giant Intestinal Fluke
Fasciolopsis buski