Cestodes (tapeworms 1) Flashcards
cestodes taxonomy
kingdom- Animalia (unikonts)
Group- helminths
phylum- Platyhelminthes
class- cestodes (tapeworms)
cestodes alt name
tapeworms
cestodes host
- vertebrates final host
- utilize intermediate hosts
cestodes digeston
- no mouth or gut, abs all nutrients through tegument (syncytium covering body)
cestodes segmentation
yes segmented body
cestodes sex organs
- hermaphroditic
cestodes main body features
- Holdfast – Anterior end used to attach and move along intestinal wall
- Scolex – Head area
cestodes body and repro
- Neck – Germinal area behind scolex serving as source of growth for new segments
- Proglottids/ Stobila – Segments where immature right behind neck, mature behind immature, gravid after mating behind mature and containing eggs
- Segments can either routinely release eggs into feces or individual segments detach and passed in feces before releasing eggs
cestode transmission intermediate host
Intermediate infected by eating egg or ciliated larvae from egg
cestode transmission final host
- Final host infected by eating larva (meta-cestode) in intermediate host
- Eggs or segments passed in feces of final host
cestode organ effected
adults live in si
cestode dx
- larva are dangerous form
- adults typically minimally pathogenicity
cestodes life cycle 101
Egg in feces -> Egg or coracidium eaten by inter-mediate host -> Meta-cestode is final stage in inter-mediate host & disease causing stage -> Final hosts eats inter-mediate & thus also ingests meta-cestode -> Becomes strobilate tapeworm in final host intestines
diphyllobothriidea taxonomy
kingdom- Animalia (unikonts)
phylum- Platyhelminthes
class- Cestoda
family- Diphyllobothriidae
diphyllobothriidea host
- 1st intermediate host is freshwater copepod
- 2nd is vertebrate
- use paratenic host
diphyllobothriidea lifecycle
Trematode like eggs w/ operculum on top
- Coracidium – Product of embryon-ation (egg in water then develops into this w/ 6 hooklets inside)
- Procircoid – In swimming invertebrates that eat the coracidium
- Plerocircoid – Stage in next host (meta-cestode in this case)
diphyllobothriidea transmission
- aquatic
- eggs not infectious when passed
dibothriocephalus latus taxonomy
kingdom- Animalia (unikonts)
phylum- Platyhelminthes
class- Cestoda
family- Diphyllobothriidae
dibothriocephalus latus host
- intermediate is fresh water copepod
- final is fish eating mammals (bears, dogs, cats)
dibothriocephalus latus transmission
- ingestion of fish
- use paratenic host in bigger and bigger fish to move up food chain
dibothriocephalus latus dx
- usually no clinical signs
- 50% patients have digestive disturbances
spirometra spp. taxonomy
kingdom- Animalia (unikonts) phylum- Platyhelminthes class- Cestoda family- Diphyllobothriidae genus- spirometra
spirometra spp. host
- intermediate are first copepods then string of paratenic like mice
- final= bobcats and other wild felids
spirometra spp. id
Metacestode Spargana – Mature larvae that have heads like the adults similar to plerocircoid in vertebrate final host
spirometra spp. lifecycle
- Procercoid in copepod
spirometra spp. transmission
- Ingestion of vertebrate intermediate host
- In amphibians, reptiles, warm blooded vertebrates and moves up food chain until back in vertebrates
spirometra mansonoides taxonomy
kingdom- Animalia (unikonts) phylum- Platyhelminthes class- Cestoda family- Diphyllobothriidae genus- spirometra
spirometra mansonoides host
- intermediate copepod
- paratenic amphibian then rat
- final = bobcat
spirometra mansonoides lifecycle
- egg -> coracidium
spirometra mansonoides id
- eggs look like those of trematodes
spirometra mansonoides organ infected
- skin, CT
cyclophillidea taxonomy
kingdom- Animalia (unikonts)
phylum- Platyhelminthes
class- Cestoda
order- Cyclophyllidea