[5] Cestodes Flashcards
DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; Commonly known
Broadfish Tapeworms
DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; Mode of
Transmission
Ingestion of pickled or insufficiently
cooked fish
DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; Infective stage
Plerocercoid larva
DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; Diagnostic stage
Gravid proglottids, egg packets
DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; Intermediate host
Requires 2:
○ 1st = Copepods (Cyclops sp.,
Diaptomus spp.)
○ 2nd = Freshwater fish (Salmon,
trout, carp)
DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; Definitive host
Human , Piscivorous mammals (dog, cat,
pig, bears, leopards)
MORPHOLOGY: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; Yellowish brown; 55-76μm by 41-56μm
EGG
MORPHOLOGY: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; Immature when oviposited and becomes
embryonated upon contact with water
EGG
MORPHOLOGY: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM;consists of a ciliated larval stage known as a coracidium, surrounded by a smooth yellow to brown shell
EGG
MORPHOLOGY: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; operculum, consumes one end of the egg
EGG
MORPHOLOGY: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; A small but distinct terminal knob, also known as an abopercular knob, extends from the opposite
end of the egg
EGG
MORPHOLOGY: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM;measures 3-10 meters
ADULT
MORPHOLOGY: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM;3000 (no. of proglottids)
ADULT
MORPHOLOGY: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM;
Scolex
MORPHOLOGY: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM;
MORPHOLOGY: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM;
Scolex
MORPHOLOGY: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; Two deep dorsoventral suctorial grooves called
bothria
MORPHOLOGY: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM;Unsegmented
Neck
MORPHOLOGY: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM;several times the length of the scolex
Neck
MORPHOLOGY: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; broader than long, hermaphroditic
○ dark rosette-like coiled uterus located at
the center
Mature
MORPHOLOGY: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; same as mature proglottid
gravid
DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; laboratory diagnosis
Examining stool specimens
for the presence of the
characteristic eggs (acid
ether concentration
technique ) and/or, less
frequently, the proglottids