Blood flukes Flashcards
Three species of schistosomes that parasitize humans are regarded important. What are they?
- Schistosoma japonicum
- Schistosoma mansoni
- Schistosoma haematobium
Less common species of schistosomes are ____ found in Africa and ____ found in the Mekong Basin.
Schistosoma intercalatum; Schistosoma mekongi
Although these flukes reside in the blood vascular system, eggs are generally found in what sample?
stool
The eggs of what Schistosoma are occasionally seen in stool but usually seen in urine?
Schistosoma haematobium
Female worms are long and ____, with a body almost circular in cross sections.
thin and delicate
slender
The body of male worms is flattened behind the ventral sucker, as it is incurved ventrally to form a ____ in which the female reposes.
gynecophoral canal
Among the two Schistosome, which is longer?
male or female
female
but thinner cla
male is thicker due to gynecophoroal canal (for reproduction)
What structure of Schistosoma eggs assist in the retention of eggs in the blood vessels?
spines
+++ dinidilate ng worms vessels b4 oviposition so that eggs are laid and wedged firmly into the small vessels
The miracidium inside a Schistosoma egg produces an ____ that diffuses through the egg shell and helps to digest the overlying tissue.
enzyme
In blood flukes, the action of the ____ produced by the miracidium, together with necrosis via the spines, works to liberate the egg from the tissues into the lumen of the intestine or bladder.
enzyme
What stages are not present in the life cycle of Schistosoma
redia and metacercaria
The cause of pathology of Schistosoma is what?
eggs or adult worms
eggs
The cercaria of schistosomes have a ____ tail and anterior glands that assist in skin penetration.
forked
Upon skin penetration, the tail is lost and is now referred to as what?
cercaria minus tail = ?
Schistosomula
The cercaria minus the tail remains in the subcutis for about how many days?
about 2 days
After blood vessel invasion, flukes are carried to the lungs then to the ____ where they begin their growth.
Liver
liver sinusoids
After ____ weeks, the maturing worms commence a migration against the floow of blood in the portal system to their final location in mesenteric or vesicular veins.
two
final locations in the host will differ for each species
Habitat of Schistosoma mansoni
inferior mesenteric vein
in the region of the lower colon
____ is the smallest of the schistosomes that infect humans
Schistosoma mansoni
Diagnosis of schistosomiasis during the ____ period of the disease is based on the recover of eggs in the stool.
acute or chronic
acute
In the ____ stage of the schistosomiasis, eggs may not be found in the stool. Biopsy may be of value ‘coz eggs can be demonstrated in the tissues.
acute or chronic
chronic
common name of Schistosoma mansoni
Manson’s blood fluke
Intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni
Biomphalaria spp.
Intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum
Oncomelania hupensis quadrasi
common name of Schistosoma japonicum
Oriental blood fluke
Among the schistosomes, which is the most virulent as it lays the most number of eggs and is highly zoonotic?
Schistosoma japonicum
Habitat of Schistosoma japonicum
superior mesenteric vein
adjacent to the small intestine
Urinary schistosomiasis is generally caused by what Schistosoma?
Schistosoma haematobium
Common name of Schistosoma haematobium
Vesical blood fluke
or Bladder fluke (Zeibig)
Habitat of Schistosoma haematobium
Vesical, Prostatic, and Uterine venous plexuses
The Schistosoma haematobium eggs that are deposited in the walls of the bladder may break through and escape with the ____.
what sample?
urine