Invertebrates Chart Flashcards
Genus/species: Taenia saginata (beef) Taenia solium(pork)
-Platyhelminthes (Flat worms)
Class: Cestoda
Genus/species: Taenia saginata (beef) Taenia solium(pork)
Layman term: Human Tapeworms
Disease: Taeniasis (pork and beef) Cysticercosis (pork only)
Symptoms: Taeniasis: Mild GI Pain Cysticercosis: Embeds in tissues, life threatening
Particulars: Humans get infected from eating contaminated meat.
Genus/species: Taenia pisiformis
-Platyhelminthes (Flat worms)
Class: Cestoda Genus/species: Taenia pisiformis Layman term: Dog and cat Tapeworm Disease: Dog and cat tapeworms Symptoms: diarrhea and gas Particulars: Dogs and cats get tapeworms by eating fleas, which have tapeworms in their intestinal tract.
Genus/species: Clonorchis sinensis
-Platyhelminthes (Flat worms)
Class: Trematoda Genus/species: Clonorchis sinensis Layman term: Liver fluke Disease: Granulomas Symptoms: Granulomas Particulars: Infection caused by ingestion of organism
Genus/species: Fasciolopsis buski
-Platyhelminthes (Flat worms)
Class: Trematoda
Genus/species: Fasciolopsis buski
Layman term: Giant intestinal fluke
Disease: Granulomas
Symptoms: Granulomas in intestines: GI pain, diarrhea
Particulars: Can get this from eating raw, contaminated water chestnuts
Genus/species: Schistosoma mansoni
-Platyhelminthes (Flat worms)
Class: Trematoda
Genus/species: Schistosoma mansoni
Layman term: Blood fluke
Disease: Schistosomiasis/ Swimmer’s itch
Symptoms: Schistosomiasis: Granulomas, Katayama’s fever, coughing, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hepatosplenomegaly, and eosinophilia Swimmer’s Itch: America; duck host, eggs shed in feces. Larvae die under human’s skin; pruritus
Particulars: Schistosomiasis: “male menstruation”, Pharaoh’s curse. Female lives in the male. Human contact with infected water is needed to get the disease. Swimmer’s Itch: rub hard with towel.
Genus/species: Planaria
-Platyhelminthes (Flat worms)
Class: Turbellaria Genus/species: Planaria Layman term: free-living flatworm Disease: Non-parasitic Symptoms: Particulars:
Genus/species: Enterobius vermicularis
-Nematoda (round worm)
Class: Genus/species: Enterobius vermicularis Layman term: Pin worm Disease: Symptoms: pruritus on anus from eggs deposited on the perianal folds Particulars:
Genus/species: Ascaris lumbricoides
-Nematoda (round worm)
Class:
Genus/species: Ascaris lumbricoides
Layman term: Intestinal roundworm
Disease: Can block or perforate intestines when agitated. It can also block bile duct.
Symptoms: Reproduces quickly, but becomes agitated in a crowded environment, so it migrates within the body and can perforate the intestines. It can come out through the nose and mouth.
Particulars: The world’s largest worm, causes the most helminthes infections world-wide
Genus/species: Toxocara canis and cati
-Nematoda (round worm)
Class:
Genus/species: Toxocara canis and cati
Layman term: Dog and cat roundworms
Disease: Visceral Larva Migrans (VLM)
Symptoms: VLM: most have mild symptoms, some have brain, eye, heart and lung problems
Particulars: Not transmitted by fleas; newborn puppies might get them from their mother.
Genus/species: Necator americanus
-Nematoda (round worm)
Class:
Genus/species: Necator americanus
Layman term: American hookworm
Disease: Intestinal bleeding/ persistant anemia
Symptoms:
Particulars: Disease usually begins after contact with infected soil. May cause pica (desire to eat soil to get iron because of anemia)
Genus/species: Ancylostoma braziliense
-Nematoda (round worm)
Class:
Genus/species: Ancylostoma braziliense
Layman term: Dog and cat Hookworms
Disease: pruritus / Loeffler’s Syndrome
Symptoms: Blood tests show an increase in eosinophils (a type of white blood cell) whenever a patient has ANY type of parasitic infection. Dog and cat hookworms usually just cause pruritis (itchy skin) in humans, but in Loeffler’s Syndrome, eosinophiles accumulate in the lungs, causing a type of pneumonia. People with pneumonia cough and have a fever.
Particulars: Serpentine tunnels: Cutaneous larval migrans (CLM)
Genus/species: Trichinella spiralis
-Nematoda (round worm)
Class: Genus/species: Trichinella spiralis Layman term: Threadworm Disease: Symptoms: Encyst in skeletal muscle Particulars: Transmitted by eating improperly cooked meat, usually pork. You cannot smoke, dry, or pickle pork for this reason. In the USA, would most likely to get it from infected bear meat (Alaska)
Genus/species: Hirudo medicinalis
-Annelida (segmented worms)
Class: Hirudinea Genus/species: Hirudo medicinalis Layman term: Leech Disease: Symptoms: Particulars: Annelida are coelomate (fluid-filled body cavity lined with mesoderm). Leeches are used in blood letting and as an anticoagulant to ensure blood flow to tissue, and as an anesthetic in microsurgery for finger amputations
Genus/species: Dermacentor
-Arthropoda
Class: Arachnia
Genus/species: Dermacentor
Layman term: Hard Ticks
Disease: 1) Ehrlichiosis (Erlichia bacteria) 2) Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (Rickettsia rickettsia bacteria) 3) Tick paralysis
Symptoms: Ehrlichiosis: Fever, headache, fatigue, muscle aches (myalgia) Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: fever, headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, myalgia, rash.
Particulars: ALL arthpods have segmted appendages. They have sight, unlike the worms (including Planaria). Hard ticks feed for days Soft ticks feed for minutes Arthropoda are of medical importance because they transmit disease-causing microbes.
Genus/species: Ixodes
-Arthropoda
Class: Arachnia
Genus/species: Ixodes
Layman term: Hard Ticks
Disease: Lyme Disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) Babbesiosis (Babesia; US protozoa)
Symptoms: Lyme Disease: Fever, headache, fatigue, skin rash called erythema migrans. Can spread to joints, heart, and nervous system. Babesiosis: Fever, chills, myalgia, fatigue, hepatosplenomegaly, hemolytic anemia,
Particulars: Erythema migrans (characteristic rash)
