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
host that is not an obligaet part of parasite lifecycle
incedental or dead end host
Tapeworms are:
cestoda
Flukes are:
trematoda
roundworms are
nematoda
causes taniasis= tapeworm in intestines
taneium solium
causes cysticercosis
eating tapeworm eggs–> goes to larva in muscles, eye, brain
what is indicative of diphyllium latum?
pernacious anemia, lots of fish in diet
Echinococcus granulosus (hydatid disease)
tapeworm from dogs
Echinococcus granulosus invades
mostly liver and lung