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Cestodes Flashcards

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Taxonomy of Cestoda

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General features of Cestoda

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  • no sexual dimorphism
  • life cycle indirect with one intermediate host, except for Pseudophyllidea order
  • adults live in small intestine
  • eggs: contain embrionated egg L1 (6-hooked oncosphere) except for D.latum (zygote)
  • infection: per os with L2 except for D.latum(L3)
  • cestodes: infection caused by adults
  • metacestodes:infection caused by larvae in intermediate hosts
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Morphology of Cestodes

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Morphology of Cestodes

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Morphology of Cestodes

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The only Cestode that develops with 2 intermediate hosts

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D.latum

Becomes L1 in the environment, L2 in 1st intermediate host, L3 in 2nd intermediate host (infectious state for final host)

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The only cestode producing unembridionated eggs

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D.latum
Develop in environment to L1

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L1 — ?
L2 — ?
L3 — ?

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L1 = 6-hooked oncosphere
L2 =
L3 = (only in D.latum)

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Diphyllobothrium latum. Name

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Broad tapeworm, fish tapeworm
Mainly fishborn (fresh water) disease of human and animals

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D.latum. Why is it called broad tapeworm?

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Width of the segments are much bigger than height

Very characteristic!

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D.latum. General characteristic

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D.latum. Life cycle

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Egg ->
coracidium (L1) ->
small copepod crustaceans (Cyclops spp.) where procercoid (L2) develops ->
freshwater fish hets infected by eating crustaceans and plerocercoid (L3) develops

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D.latum. Prepatent period

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2-6 weeks, in dogs 11-15 days

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D.latum. Pathogenesis, clinical signs

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Animals: usually asymptomatic
Man: long-lasting infection (decades), often subclinical or mild (e.g. abdominal discomfort, diarrhea, vomiting), uptake of vitamin B12 may lead to a macrocytic, megaloblastic anaemia in heavily infected individuals

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D.latum. Diagnosis. Treatment

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  • FEC with sedimentation method
  • examination of proglottids passed in the stool

Treatment: praziquantel

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Spirometrosis and sparganosis

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Caused by plerocercoid of Spirometra spp
The old name of plerocercoid of Spirometra
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Monieziosis, stilesiosis, thysanosomosis

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Tapeworm disease of ruminants
Caused by:
Moniezia expansa (dominant, cosmopolitan) up to 6m, width 15 mm
Moniezia benedeni (less common) up to 4 m, width 25 mm in large animals

Thysaniezia giardi
Avitellina centripuncuta
Stilesia globipuncata

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Morphology of tapeworms …

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Life cycle:

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Tape worms of carnivores

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Echinococcus granulosus - dwarf tapeworm of dogs
Echinococcus multilocularis - dwarf tapeworm of foxes
Dipylidium caninum - cucumber-like tapeworm

Taenia pisiformis (0.3-1.5m)
T. hydatigena (0.5-2.5 m)
T. ( syn. Multiceps) multiceps (0.4-1 m)
T. krabbei (syn. T. cervi) (2-2.5 m)
T. ovis (0.5-1.4 m)
T. crassiceps (0.1-0.2 m) foxes
T. taeniaeformis cat tapeworm (0.2-0.6 m) cat, lynx, red foxes
T. serialis (0.2-0.8 m)
Mesocestoides spp. (M. litteratus, M. lineatus) (0.3-2.5 m)

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What egg type of tapeworms of carnivores is called?

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Taenia type egg
- 30-40 micrometers
- oval
- inside 6-hooked oncosphere (L1)

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Life cycle of tapeworms of carnivores

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indirect with 1 intermediate host
Infective stage: L2

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Echinococcus granulosus

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  • adult 3-6 mm long
  • 3 (2-6) segments
  • 4 suckers and rostellum
  • lives up to 1 year in anterior half of the small intestine
  • taenia-type eggs
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Echinococcus multilocularis

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The dangerous fox tapeworm
Hosts: red foxes, dogs, cats
- adults 2-4 mm long
- 5 segments
- eggs survive 2-3 months in summer, about 8 months in cooler seasons
- 20.000 eggs/segment

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Dipylidium caninum

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Flea/double-pore or cucumber seed tapeworm
- adult 20-80 cm long
- two sets of reproductive organs with bilateral genital pores
- in gravies segment 200-300 micrometer sized cocoons of 3-30 eggs

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Dipylidium caninum. Life cycle

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  • life cycle indirect
  • intermediate hosts — fleas
  • infection with infected intermediate host
  • PP period: 16-21 days
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Dipylidium caninum. Clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment

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Clinical signs are rare

Diagnosis: Gracie segment (rice-like) on perinatal skin, fur; PCR

Therapy: praziquantel (5 ml/bwkg), epsiprantel (7,5 ml/bwkg) + flea control

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Epidemiology.

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29
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Anoplocephalosis — ?

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Tapeworm disease of horses and donkeys

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Anoplocephalosis is caused by ___ ?

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Anoplocephala perfoliata
Anoplocephala magna
Anoplocephala (syn. Paranoplocephala) mamillana

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Anoplocephalosis. Location

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Specimens of A.perfoliata tend to congregate at the ileocaecal junction, proximal caecum, ileum, ventral colon

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Anoplocephalosis. Life cycle

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Indirect
Cysticercoid (L2) develop in moss mites (Oribatidae) within 2-4 months
- PP period: 1-2 months

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