General Parasitology - LEC 2 Flashcards
multicellular, bilaterally symmetrical, elongated, flat or round organisms
Helminths
2 phyla of helminths that parasitize humans
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Phylum Nematoda
Helminths are ______ in size and often visible to naked eyes
macroscopic
Nematodes’ larvae (3)
Rhabditiform
Filariform
Microfilaria
Cestode’s larvae (7)
Cysticercus
Cysticercoid
Coenurus
Coracidium
Procercoid
Plerocercoid
Hydatid cyst
Trematode’s larvae (5)
Miracidium
Sporocyst
Redia
Cercaria
Metacercaria
reside in lymphatic system or in the blood
Microfilaria
Parasite that has microfilaria larva, it is a blood and tissue parasite
Wuchureria bancrofti
They complete their life cycle in one host
Nematodes
Nematodes that require 2 hosts (man and insect vector/cyclops)
filarial nematodes and Dracunculus medinensis
They complete their life cycle in 2 different hosts
Cestodes
Cestodes that doesn’t require 2 hosts to complete their life cycle
Hymenolepis nana
For most cestodes, man is the
definitive host
Identify the cestode parasite that make MAN AS ITS INTERMEDIATE HOST
Echinococcus granulosus
cestode parasite: the man serves as both definitive and intermediate host
Taenia solium
They complete their life cycle in 1 definitive host (man) and 2 intermediate hosts (freshwater snail, fish/crab)
Trematodes
Ascaris lumbricoides infective stage in humans
embryonated egg with L3 larva
where does soil transmitted helminths embryonate?
soil
diagnostic stages of A. lumbricoides
fertilized eggs/ovum and adult worms in small intestine
Class cestoda is divided into two orders
Cyclophyllidea
Pseudophyllidea
class cestoda that needs water to embryonate eggs
Pseudophyllideans
class cestoda that needs soil to embryonate eggs “terrestrial”
Cyclophyllideans
class cestoda that contained in bladder/cyst, fluid-filled (bladder larva)
Cyclophyllideans
class cestoda that is not contained in cysts
Pseudophyllideans
[cyclo] Larva in Taenia multiceps
Coenerus
Larva in Taenia saginata and T. solium
Cysticercus
Larva in Hymenolepis spp.
Cysticercoid
[cyclo] T. solium and saginata eggs/ova when consumed affects the brain of humans. The disease caused by the said spp is called______
Cysticercosis
Pseudophyllideans L1 larva (ciliated with hooks)
Coracidium
Pseudophyllideans L2 larva (with cercomere, 3 pairs of hooklets)
Procercoid
Pseudophyllideans L3 larva (
Plerocercoid/sparganum
Disease cause by the ingestion of Plerocercoid/sparganum or the L3 larva of Pseudophyllideans.
Sparganosis disease
Trematodes’ intermediate host
snails (gastropods)