LUNG FLUKES Flashcards
OTHER NAMES FOR PARAGONIMIASIS
LUNG FLUKE DISEASE
PULMONARY DISTOMIASIS
ENDEMIC HEMPTYSIS
PARASITE HEMOPTYSIS
OTHER NAME OF PARAGONIMUS WESTERMANI
ORIENTAL LUNG FLUKE
SPECIES OF PARAGONIMUS IDENTIFIED ONLY CATS
P. SIAMENSIS
OTHER SPECIES OF PARAGONIMUS
P. PHILIPPINENSIS
PARAGONIMIASIS RESEMBLES WHAT CHRONIC ILLNESS?
PTB
ADULT MORPHOLOGY OF P. WESTERMANI
REDDISH BROWN SPOON/COFFEE BEAN-SHAPED SPINOUS CUTICLE, SINGLE-SPACED SPINES SUCKERS ARE OF EQUAL SIZE VENTRAL SUCKER ALONG EQUATORIAL PLANE **ZIGZAGGING INTESTINAL CECA ** 1 LOBED OVARY ANTERIOR TO TESTES (WITH 6 LONG UNBRANCHED LOBES) **2 SLIGHTLY OBLIQUE, IRREGULARLY LOBED TESTES AT THE POSTERIOR THIRD
CERCARIA OF P. WESTERMANI
ELLIPSOIDAL, COVERED IN SPINE
SMALL TAIL
STYLET AT DORSAL SIDE OF SUCKER
EGG OF P. WESTERMANI
BIG EGG
FLATTENED BUT PROMINENT OPERCULUM
THICKENED ABOPERCULAR PORTION
UNDEVELOPED IN FECES
HABITAT OF ADULT WORMS
IN FIBROTIC CAPSULES OR CYSTS IN LUNGS, THEY ARE FOUND IN PAIRS OR 3’S
1ST INTERMEDIATE HOST OF P WESTERMANI
SNAIL
ANTEMELANIA ASPERATA
ANTEMELANIA DACTYLUS (BROTIA ASPERATA)
HUA SEMISULCOSPIRA SYNCERA POMATIOPSIS POMACEA
2ND INTERMEDIATE HOST OF P. WESTERMANI
FRESHWATER MOUNTAIN CRAB
-SUNDATHELPHUSA PHILIPPINA (PARATHELPHUSA GRAPSOIDES)
ERIOCHER POTAMIN SESARMA PARATHELPHASA ASTACUS CAMBARUS
SITE OF ENCYSTMENT OF CERCARIA
GILLS, BODY MUSCLES, VISCERA, LEGS
WAYS BY WHICH 2ND P WESTERMANI IH ACQUIRES THE CERCARIA
PENETRATION
INGESTION OF SNAILS
PATHOLOGY OF P WESTERMANI
EXCYST IN DUODENUM
EMBEDS IN ABDOMINAL WALL FOR SEVERAL DAYS
RETURNS TO COELOM
GOES THROUGH DIAPHRAGM TO PENETRATE LUNGS
BECOMES ADULT IN THE LUNGS
65 - 90 DAYS COMPLETION
ANIMAL RESERCOIR HOSTS OF P WESTERMANI
DOGS, CATS, FILED RATS, OTHER RODENTS