Liver, intestinal, lung flukes Flashcards
Phase in the lifecycle which is found in the 2nd IH
Metacercaria
Lifecycle of flukes
Complex
1st IH of flukes are always __
Snails
Modified T/F: MOT of all flukes are via ingestion
F
Schistosomes via skin penetration
Only trematode with snails as both 1st & 2nd IH
Echinostoma ilocanum
Diagnostic stage of fasciolas
Unembryonated egg
Diagnostic stage of opistorchis
Embryonated egg
Diagnostic of clonorchis
Embryonated egg
2nd IH of clonorchis
Fresh water fish
2nd IH of opistorchis
Fresh water fish
2nd IH of dicrocoelium dendriticum
Ant
2nd IH of fasciola
Aquatic plant (watercress, kangkong)
Final host of opistorchis felineus
Cats
2nd IH of h. Heterophyes
Fish
Smallest trematode
H. Heterophyes
Final host of intestinal flukes
Man
2 intestinal flukes that show hen’s egg appearance
F. buski, e. ilocanum
No abopercular thickening
H. hetrophyes
2nd IH of westermani
Crab (sudathelphusa philippina)
Lung fluke adult morphology
Coffee bean, found in pairs or in 3’s in fibrotic capsules
Lung fluke egg morphology
Abopercular thickening
Infective stage of westermani
Metacercaria
MOT of westermani
Ingestion
Diagnostic stage of westermani
Unembryonated egg