Helmintology Flashcards
Nowadays we have started to use Praziquantel in Eq deworming. Why is that?
Amitraz ø useful.
Parasites effecting the Cow’s eye:
Thelaziosis, Onchocercosis.
Eye disease in grazing Eq via nematodes:
- L3 of Draschia megastoma.
- Adults of Thelazia lacrymalis.
- Microfilariae of Onchocerca cervicalis.
- Microfilariae of Setaria equine.
Skin surface migration in humans called:
Cutaneous larva migrans
They belong to the phylum of Flatworms:
Trematodes ( flukes) + Cestodes ( tapeworms).
Which is ø related to others?
Cercaria.
Development phases of Flukes:
- 5 stages.
- Egg- MI- SPO- RE- CE.
Which developmental form comes after Miracidium?
Sporocyst.
This larval stage follows the Redia stage:
Cercaria.
Larva leaving IH?
Cercaria.
What occurs after Metacercariae?
Adult.
Can occur in the environment:
Metacercariae.
Which flukes don’t occur in intestines?
F. hepatica, D. dentriticum, Paramphistomum spp.
Trematode ( Flukes) egg can be detected via:
FEC.
What is ø effective against flukes?
Ivermectin.
Liver flukes development?
MI- SPO- RE1- RE2- CE.
Which is the IH of F. hepatica ( common liver fluke)?
Galba truncatula snail.
Hosts of F. hepatica:
Wide Most herbivorous mammals + humans.
This/ These animals has/ have low resistance against F. hepatica:
Rabbit, Sheep, Goat
F.hepatica location:
Bile ducts.
Large American liver fluke:
Fasciola magna.
Which is the IH of large American fluke?
Galba truncatula.
F. magna egg size:
110- 160 µm with zygote.
Deer is the host of which fluke?
F. magna.
Choose the right statement:
F.magna can’t complete it’s life cycle in small Ru.
In which sp. is F. magna incapsulated?
Deer, cattle.
Small Ru fatal death can be caused by:
F. magna.
Which sp. lives in a capsule in liver?
F. magna.
Which fluke causes caverns in liver?
F. magna.
It feeds through the body surface too:
F. gigantica ( large liver fluke).
Drugs use against liver flukes?
Triclabendazole.
Rumen fluke development:
MI- SPO- RE- CE.
What is ø absolutely necessary in life cycle of Rumen fluke?
2 IH.
How can you diagnose acute Paramphistomosis?
Necropsy.
What is the larval stage that develops in Dicrocoelium in ants?
Metacercaria.
Schistosoma, Dicrocoelium development:
MI- SPO1- SPO2- CE.
How many IH does lancet fluke have?
2.
Dicrocoeliosis is:
Zoonotic.
Where in the world is S.mansoni found?
Tropical Africa + South America- Tropical + Subtropical zones.
Which Schistosoma sp. can be found in bladder?
S. mansoni + S. haematobium.
Blood fluke infects host by:
Penetrating skin (percutan/ per os).
What is the name of infective stage of Blood flukes:
Furocercariae.
How do offspring of Blood flukes get out from final host?
Eggs.
Which developmental stages of Blood fluke occur in snail?
SPO + CE.
Blood fluke infection from what?
Urine + faeces.
This parasite do ø have metacercaria?
Blood fluke.
Number of IH in Alaria alata?
2.
Alaria alata in Paratenic hosts:
Mesocercariae.
Where is Alaria alata (flatworm)?
- Final hosts- Dog, cat.
- Paratenic host- Sus, poultry, humans.
- Small intestine.
Proglottids are produced by:
Cestoda.
What is true about scolex in Cestoda only?
For attachment.
Diphyllobothriosis does ø occur in:
Sheep.
Sp. ø effected by Diphylobothrium latum?
Cattle.
Life cycle of Diphyllobotrium:
Indirect.
Diphyllobothrium causes:
Anemia, vit B12 deficiency.
How does Diphylobotrium latum infect?
/os- via fish intake.
How can a human be infected with Diphyllobotrium latum ( broad tapeworm)?
Ingestion of fish.
Human can be infected by eating infected meat including:
Diphylobothrium latum.
Meat borne infection of human is/ are:
Diphylobotriosis, Pork measle.
What is inside the ovum of Diphyllobotrium?
Zygote.
Diphyllobotrium have:
Yellow, oval egg with zygote inside.
The offspring of Broad Tapeworm is shed by host in which form?
Egg.
Tapeworm of Ru:
- Indirect lifecycle.
- IH- Box mites (Oribatidae).
- Eggs ( + 6 hooked oncosphere)–> Cysticercoid L2.
Worm which looks like grains of cooked rice in faeces in sheep:
Moniezia expansa.
Monieza spp. FEC with flotation:
- M. expansa- Triangular egg.
- M. benedeni- Quadrangular egg.
It’s larvae are ø hepatophilic:
Echinococcus granulosus.
The infective stage of E. granulosus is:
Hydatid cyst.
Cystic echinococcosis/ Hydatidosis/ Hydatid disease:
- Parasitic zoonoses.
- Caused by E. hydatidosus, infective L2 of E. granulosus.
- IH=> Ru, Eq, Sus, humans.
Infective stage of E. granulosus in Humans:
G1 ( from sheep), G2 ( T sheep).
Treatment against Echinococcus spp in Dogs:
- Praziquantel 5mg/kg.
- Epsiprantel 7.5mg/kg.
E. multilocularis can occur in humans:
Never.
Can cat be infected with E. multilocularis?
True.
How many proglottids does Diphyllidium caninum have?
Many.
Diphylidium caninum can cause visceralis larva migrans in Human:
False.
What is the name of the most common tapeworm in Eq?
Anoplocephala perfoliata.
Life cycle of Anoplocephala:
Indirect.
What do we diagnose with Proudman method ( FEC type)?
Anoplocephala perfoliata.
Moxidectin isn’t good against:
Anoplocephala.
Which tapeworm spp. can cause autoinfection in humans?
Taenia solium + saginata + asciatica, Diphylobotrium latum.
Found in the brain:
Cysticercus cellulosae (Human + Sus, m., heart, eyes).
Tapeworms belong to:
Platyhelminthes.
Lifecycle of Tapeworms:
Indirect.
Which domestic animal doesn’t have specific tapeworm sp?
Sus.
From which do only 1 tapeworm develop?
Cysticercoid + Strobilocercus.
Many adult tapeworms develop from this type of larva:
Echinococcus + Coenurus.
It occurs in vertebrate IH:
Plerocercoid- m. of fish.
Only 1 protoscolex develops from:
Strobilocercus.
This larva is ø able to reproduce asexually in host:
Cysticercus.
It can develop asexually:
Sporocyst.
If meat infected:
Discarded immediately.
What is found in m.?
Cysticercus cervi + cellulosae + bovis, Coenurus serialis.
The following statement is correct:
Hepatophilic tapeworm larva develops to L2.
Which is ø hepatophilic:
T. longicollis, E. granulosus.
Beef measles:
- Cysticercus bovis in cattle–> Bladder worm/ beef measles.
- Infective L2 of human tapeworm, T. saginata.
Carcass unfit for consumption:
If 2/ more living cysts are found at more than 1 inspected site.
Pork measles:
- Carcass damage when tapeworms are encysted in meat.
- Caused by Cysticercus cellulosae, infective L2 of human pork tapeworm, Taenia solium.
Larva of Taenia hydatigena:
Is hepatophilic.
The IH of T.pisiformis are:
Rabbit, hare.
What is the host sp. of Taenia ovis?
Dog.
Cysticercus tennuicollis is L2 that develops to T. Ovis?
False.
Cysticercus ovis effects which organs?
M., heart.
Which 1 doesn’t occur in m.?
Cysticercus pisiformis, C. tenuicollis.
How many protoscolices are in Cysticercus piriformis?
1.
Tapeworm whose metacestodes is C. cellulosae?
Taenia solium.
Echinococcus hydatidiosus is L3:
False.
What’s the name of tapeworm sp. of red foxes which causes severe infection in Human?
E. multilocularis.
It occurs in invertebrate IH:
Cysticercoid.
’ Hepatitis cysticercosa’ caused by:
Cysticercus tenuicollis + pisiformis.
The infective stage of T. solium can develop in?
Humans + Sus.
Graphidium strigosum location:
Stomach of rabbit.
This infection can be detected by inspecting faeces with flotation method:
Spirocercosis, Trichostrongylus.
It lives in large intestine of Ru:
- Chabertia ovina- colon + rectum.
- Oesaphagustomum dentatum- Caecum + colon.
Which one has a smooth surface?
Toxascarina leonina.
PE- 2 of this/ these sp. isn’t ascaroid type:
A. galli + T. leonina.