Eggs Flashcards
Opisthorchis ova - liver fluke
Operculum
shoulders
miracidium
small knob may be seen
25-30um
brown/orange colour
oval shape
Taenia ova - cestode/ tapeworm
30-45um
round shape and brown
thick striated wall
embryo hooklets
Hymenoleptis
35-45um
round and pale in colour
hooklets of embryo
polar filaments
Trichuris trichiura whipworm
50-55um
polar mucoid plugs
unsegmented ovum
oval shape and brown
Enterobius vermicularis - pinworm
colourless oval with one side flattened
55um
not often found in faecal as often taken directly from the rectum
Fertile ascaris lumbricoides egg
55-65um
yellow brown round/oval
corticated albumin coat (may be decorticated due to breakdown by stomach biles)
Hookworm
colourless oval
60-70um
segmented ovum
Diphyllobothorium latum
65-70um
yellow oval
operculum
yolk cells
Infertile ascaris lumbricoides
85-90
yellow brown oval darker than fertile
corticated albumin coat
Schistosoma japonicum
80-90um
pale yellow or colourless
oval
miracidium
rudimentary spine may be seen
paragonimus
70-110um
operculated and asymmetrical
thickened wall
yolk cells
Schistosoma mansoni
120-140um
miracidium
lateral spine
pale yellow or colourless
large and oval
Schistosoma haematobium
110-140um
terminal spine
miracidium
pale yellow or colourless
large and oval
Fasciola
120-140um
yellow brown
large oval
operculum
yolk cells