LUNG, LIVER, INTESTINAL FLUKES Flashcards
flukes that sexes are combined
Hermaphroditic / MONOECIOUS FLUKES
Infective stage of Monoecious flukes
Metacercaria
Diagnostic stage of Monoecious flukes
Ova or eggs in feces
Number of host
Monoecious flukes
Diecious flukes
Monoecious flukes =3 (2 IH & 1 DH)
Diecious flukes = 2 (1 IH & 1 DH)
Developmental stages of Monoecious flukes
Operculated eggs
“My Sister Rent a Car for Me”
Adult
Miracidium
Sporocysts
Redia
Cercaria
Metacercaria
ciliated larva released from egg when hatched
Miracidium
sac liked larva developed from miracidium
Sporocyts
larva developed from sporocysts; absent in Schistosoma
Redia
larva developed from redia or sporocysts
Cercaria
cercaria that has lost its tail following entry into 2nd IH
Metacercaria
Common name of Paragonimus westermani
Oriental Lung fluke
SECOND INTERMEDIATE HOST of Paragonimus westermani
Fresh water crab, crayfish
Common name of Fasciola hepatica
Sheep Liver fluke
SECOND INTERMEDIATE HOST of Fasciola hepatica
Water plants e.g. watercress
Kangkong
Common name of Clonorchis sinensis
Oriental Liver fluke
Chinese Liver fluke
Most important liver fluke of man
Clonorchis sinensis
Common name of Opistorchis felineus
cat liver fluke
Common name of Opistorchis viverrini
sea liver fluke
SECOND INTERMEDIATE HOST of Liver flukes
Cyprinoid fish
Common name of Fasciolopsis buski
Giant intestinal fluke
Busk fluke
SECOND INTERMEDIATE HOST of Fasciolopsis buski
Water plants e.g. caltrop, chestnut, bamboo shoots
Common name of Echinostoma ilocanum
Garrison`s fluke
SECOND INTERMEDIATE HOST of Echinostoma ilocanum
Edible snails
Common name of Heterophyes heterophyes
Von Siebold fluke
Dwarf fluke
SECOND INTERMEDIATE HOST of Heterophyes heterophyes
Fish
deadliest trematode and smallest trematode infecing human
Heterophyes heterophyes
Common name of Metagonimus yokogawai
Yokogawa`s fluke
SECOND INTERMEDIATE HOST of Metagonimus yokogawai
Salmonoid and cyprinoid fish
Common name of Nanophyetus salmincola
Salmon-poisoning fluke
SECOND INTERMEDIATE HOST of Nanophyetus salmincola
Salmonoid fish
Egg Morphology
- Broadly ovoidal with FLAT OPERCULUM & ABOPERCULAR THICKENING
- 80-120 x 50-60 µm
Adult Morphology:
- Coffee bean-shaped with zigzag intestinal ceca
P. westermani
Egg Morphology
- Elongately ovoidal with tapering ends; 30 x 11 µm
- closely resemnles Clonorchis
Adult Morphology:
- LOBED tested and TRANSVERSE vitellaria
Opistorchis felineus
Egg Morphology
- Broadly ovoidal with CONVEX or DOMED OPERCULUM & ABOPERCULAR KNOB
29 x 16 µm
Adult Morphology:
- Dendritic testes and GRANULAR vitellaria
C. sinensis
Egg Morphology
- Large, yellowish brown with thin shell and small operculum;
130-150 x 63-90 µm
- 2nd LARGEST egg
Adult Morphology:
- With CEPHALIC CONE and dendritic structures
- with BRANCHED testes, ovaries, and intestina ceca
Fasciola hepatica
Egg Morphology
- Indistinguishable from F. hepatica and F. gigantica ova
- LARGEST
- eggs are yellowish and ellipsoidal with CLEAR THIN shells and SMALL operculum
- 130-140 x 80-85um
Adult Morphology:
-NO CEPHALIC CONE
- intestinal ceca is UNBRANCHED
Fasciolopsis buski
Egg Morphology
- Similar to that of Clonorchis but with smaller abopercular knob;
29 x 16 µm
- THICK shelled light BROWN egg
Adult Morphology:
- With 3rd sucker called GONOTYL or Genital sucker
H.heterophyes
Egg Morphology
- Straw colored, ovoid, operculated; 83-116 x 58-69 µm.
- 3rd LARGEST
Adult Morphology:
- with CIRCUM ORAL DISK WITH SPINES
- equipped with oral sucker
E. ilocanum
Egg Morphology
- Thin-shelled, light yellow; 28 x 17 µm
- thin shelled light yellow egg
Adult Morphology:
- No 3rd sucker
M. yokogawai
Egg Morphology
- Similar to D. latum eggs but somewhat larger and narrower and have abopercular thickening instead of a knob
Adult Morphology:
- Genital opening is just posterior to the ventral sucker
Nanophyetus salmincola
Pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis resulting in pneumonia- or TB-like syndrome
P. westermani
Liver rot in sheep and goats; Halzoun syndrome
F. hepatica
Liver disease characterized by jaundice, edema and painful, progressive hepatomegaly;
associated with CHOLANGIO CARCINOMA
C. sinensis
Opistorchis spp.
Ulceration of the mucosa, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and flatulence
F. buski
No marked symptoms are produced other than intestinal irritation.
E. ilocanum
Colicky pains and mucous diarrhea; self-terminating in about two months.
H. heterophyes
M. yokogawai
Abdominal discomfort and intermittent diarrhea; vector of salmon poisoning disease in dogs
Nanophyetus salmincola