Lecture 1 Flashcards
Taenia solium/saginata (Tapeworm)
How do you get it?
- Pork or beef with consuming raw cysticeri
2. fecal-oral with eggs (auto-infection)
Proglottids or eggs in stool.
MRI for cysticercosis
what does this diagnose?
Taenia solium/saginata
Immune response for tania solium (tapeworms
Humoral response
Taenia solium symptoms:
Abdominal discomfort,
neurocysticercosis
Diseases taenia solium causes
- taeniasis
2. cysticercosis
Diphyllobothrium latum is
fish tapeworm from raw fish
severe anemia and B12 deficiency from this tapeworm
Diphylloborthium latum
Diagnosis of diphyllium latum
Proglottids or eggs in stool.
immune reponse of diphyllium latum
none
Schistosomiasis pathology
chronic inflammation,
peak infection in second decade of life
benefits both
mutalism
benefits one, nothing to other
commensalism
benefist one, harms other
parasite
host where sexual stage occurs
definitivve
host where asexual stage occurs and devo occurs
intermediate