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Micro Block 5 Flashcards

1
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Define Tegument

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Protective covering or cuticle found in helminths

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What are the attachment structures of helminths?

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Hooks
Suckers
Teeth
Plates

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Helminths include what sub-phylums?

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Platyhelminths- flat worms
Cestodes- tapeworms
Trematodes

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What are the segments of a tapeworms body called?

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Proglottids

Strobila- chain of proglottids

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Define Scolex

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Head of Cestodes

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Define Rostellum

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Pointed end of scolex w/ points of attachment

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7
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How do tapeworms eat and reproduce?

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Absorption

Hermaphroditic

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8
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Most Cestode eggs are ____ and contain ____?

What is the exception?

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Nonperculated, hexacanth embryo

Exception- Diphyllobothrium Latum, unemyoneated operculated eggs

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Define Oncosphere

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Six-hooked larval form released when Cestode eggs hatch

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What is the life cycle of Taenia?

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1- eggs/gravid proglottids in feces passed to environment
2- cattle/pigs infected from eating
3- oncospheres penetrate intestine wall->muscles
4- cysticerci develops in muscle
5- humans infected by eating raw/under cooked meat
6- scolex attaches to intesetine and matures to adult

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11
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Which Taenia species gets bigger?

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Saginata- 5m or less

Solium- 2-7m

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Where are Taenia found?

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Worldwide distribution

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How does Taenia Saginata persist within the US?

Where is Taenia solium more prevalent?

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Larva ingested with eating raw/rare steak

Communities w/ close relations w/ pigs/under cooked pork

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Where is Taenia Asiatic predominantly found?

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Asia
Korea
China
Indonesia
Thailand
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How does Taenia Saginata present clinically?

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Mild abdominal symptoms
Passing ACTIVE proglottids
Appendicitis/cholangitis

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16
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How does Taenia Solium present clincally?

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Passage of proglottid

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17
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What is the most important feature of Taenia Solium?

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Risk of developing cysticercosis

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18
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How are Taenia Saginata diagnosed in the lab?

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Eggs and proglottids in feces
Not possible within first 3mon of infection before adult is formed
Count # of primary uterine branches (Solium= 7-13, Saginata= 15-30)
Gravid proglottid longer than wide

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How long for Taenia Saginata to mature and lifespan?

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2-3mon to mature

Lifespan- 5 years

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What do the scolices of Taenia Saginata look like?

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4 muscular cup suckers

No crown of hooklets on restellum

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Can Ab detection methods detect Taenia infections?

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Yes, especially in early stages when adult form is growing

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How long after Taenia treatment are samples collected?

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3 days after treatment

Repeat @ 1 and 3 mon

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What is different/unique about the Taenia Solium life cycle and infection ability?

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Larva infect humans and pigs

Infection by ingestion of contaminant or autoinfection

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What is the intermediate host for Taenia Solium?

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Pigs

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25
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How is human cysticercosis acquired?

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Ingesting T. Solium eggs from feces of a human carrying T. Solium adult tapeworm
Acquired in populations w/out interaction/consumption of pork

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What is the greatest concern about Cysticercosis?

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Cerebral or Neural

Causes seizures, mental disturbances, space-occupying lesions

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27
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Extracerebral cysticercosis can cause lesions in what 3 areas?

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Ocular
Cardiac
Spine

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How would asymptomatic cysticercosis be seen?

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Subcutaneous nodules

Calcified intramuscular nodules

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29
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Taenia Solium eggs and proglottids in feces diagnosis ____ but not _____

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Taeniasis

Cysticercosis

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30
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Why do people with Taenia Solium eggs/proglottids found in feces need to be evaluated seriologically?

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Autoinfection resulting in cysticercosis can occur

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What kind of scolex branches would be seen with Cysticercosis infection?

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4 muscle-cup suckers and crown of hooklets

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What is the immunodiagnostic test of choice for confirming clinical/radiographic presumptions of Neurocysticercosis?

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Immunoblot assay with purified T. Solium Ags

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Can PCR tests detect T. Solium infections?

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Yes, detects DNA in CSF

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34
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What is the Fish or Broad Tapeworm?

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Diphyllobothrium Latum

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What is the largest human tapeworm?

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Diphyllobothrum latum

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What are the two intermediate hosts of Diphyllobothrium?

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Crustaceans/copepod

Freshwater fish

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What is the life cycle of Diphyllobothrium?

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1- unembryonated eggs pass in feces
2- eggs embryonate in water
3- coracidia hatch from eggs and ingested by crustaceans
4- procercoid larva in crustacean
5- infected crustacean eaten by fish, precercoid larva->plerocercoid larva
6- predator fish eats smaller fish
7- human eats infected fish
8- adult lives in small intestine, proglottids release immature eggs

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Where is diphyllobothrisasis located geographically?

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Northern Hemisphere and South America

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What kind of food is diphyllobothriasis infections associated with?

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Ceviche

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How long do diphyllobothriasis infections last?

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Decades

Most are asymptomatic

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What are the S/Sx of diphyllobothriasis infections?

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Abdominal discomfort
Diarrhea, vomiting
Weight Loss
B12 deficiency w/ pernicious anemia
Massive infections cause obstructions
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How are Diphyllobothriasis infections confirmed diagnostically?

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Eggs or proglottids in stool

Eggs are operculated

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What does the scolex of Diphyllobothriasis look like?

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Lance shaped, two leaf shaped with bothria (lateral groobes for attachment)

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What do Diphyllobothriasis proglottids look like microscopically?

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Wider than long

Central uterine structure resembling a rosette

45
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How are Diphyllobothriasis infections acquired?

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Eating under cooked/raw fresh water fish with pleurocercoi larvae

46
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Diphyllobothriasis infections are often asymptomatic unless?

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Proglottids migrate to gall bladder/bile ducts

47
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What causes Human Echinococcosis?

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Hydatid Disease

Ingestion of larval Echinococcus cestodes

48
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What is the most frequently encountered Echinococcosis?

Where is it found?

A

Echinococcus granulosus causing Cystic Echinococcosis

Worldwide, but predominantly where dogs eat infected animal parts

49
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What does E. Multiocularis cause?

Where is it found?

A

Alveolar Echinococcosis

Northern Hemisphere

50
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What does E. Vogeli cause?

Where is it found?

A

Polycystic echinococcosis

Central and South America

51
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What does E. Oligarthrus cause?

Where is it found?

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Rarest form of human echinococcosis
3 cases
Central and South America

52
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What are the definitive and intermediate hosts in the Echococcus life cycle?

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Definitive- Dogs/canidae,

Intermediate- sheep, goats, swine

53
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What form of Echinococcus do the definitive and intermediate hosts ingest?

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Dogs/canidae: Cysts

Goat/sheep/swine: Eggs

54
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Humans infected with Echinococcus ingested the microbe in what form?

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Embryonated egg in feces

55
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What is the diagnostic stage of Echinococcus life cycle?

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Hydatid cyst in liver/lungs

56
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What is the infective and diagnostic stage of the Diaphyllobothrium life cycle?

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I: infected crustacean eaten by fish
D: Unembryonated egg in feces

57
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What does the scolex of Echinococcus look like?

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Scolex has 4 sucking discs and double row of hooklets

Strobila has 3 proglottids: one mature, one immature, one gravid

58
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Define Hydatid cyst

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Larval form of Echinococcus that slowly grows tumor-like in humans with a unilocular membrane

59
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Define Brood Capsule

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Structures on wall of membrane in hydatid cyst

60
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Define Protoscolices

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Tapeworm head that develops in brood capsules

61
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Define Hydatid sand

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Formed when daughter cysts and brood capsules disintegrate and liberate protoscolices

62
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How do Echinococcus granulosus infections present S/Sx?

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Silent for years or decades before enlarged cysts cause symptoms

63
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What happens if a Echinoccus cyst ruptures within a patient?

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Fever
Urticaria
Eosinophilia
Anaphylactic shock

64
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Which form of Echinocccus infects the liver as a slow growing/invasively destructive tumor?

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Multiocularis- destructive tumor

Vogeli- slow growing tumor

65
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How is Echinococcus diagnosed clinically?

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Radiological examination

66
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What is key when dealing with Echinococcosis?

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Prevention
Washing hands/utensils
Keeping dogs clear of infected organs

67
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Hymenolepsis nana is AKA ?

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Dwarf tapeworm

68
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What is the egg appearance of Hymenolepsis?

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6 hooked embryo

Polar filaments

69
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What is the scolex appearance of Hymenolepsis?

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Four muscular suckers

Crown of hooklets

70
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What is the infective stage of Hymenolepis nana?

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Embryonated egg eaten by human from contaminated food/water/hands

71
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What is the diagnostic stage of Hymenolepis nana?

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Embryonated egg in feces

72
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What larvae can develop in human intestines as a cysticercus?

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Hymenolepis nana

73
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Where is Hymenolepis nana predominantly found?

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20mill infections worldwide, mostly children or institutionalized peoples

74
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What are the infectious and diagnostic stages of Hymenolepis diminuta?

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I= Cysticerci in body of insect ingested by human/rodent
D= Eggs in feces
75
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What is the most common cause of all cestode infections worldwide?

A

Hymenolepis nana

76
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Hymenolepis Nana and Diminuta usually present ? clinically?

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Asymptomatic

77
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Heavy infections of Hymenolepis Nana can present clinically with ? S/Sx?

A

Headache
Anorexia
Abdominal pain
Diarrhea

78
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What does Hymenoleps Diminuta require in order to reach infective cysticercoid stage?

A

Larval insect mealworms

79
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What is the pumpkin seed tapeworm?

A

Dipylidium caninum

80
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How many eggs are in each Pumpkin Seed packet of the Dipylidium Caninum?

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25 eggs/packet

81
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What are the infective and diagnostic stages of Dipylidium caninum?

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I- adult flea carries infectious cysticercoid

D= Proglottids w/ eggs in feces

82
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Where are Dipylidium Caninum infections reported?

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Worldwide

Europe, PI, China, Japan, Argentina, US

83
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How do infections of Dipylidium caninum present in humans and in animals?

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Humans- asymptomatic

Animals- Anal pruritis

84
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What is the most striking feature/sign of Dipylidium infections in humans/animals?

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Passing proglottids

Motile when passed, resemble maggots

85
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How do humans acquire Dipylidium infections?

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Accidental ingestion of flea from dog/cat

86
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What are the diagnostic and infectious stages of Spirometra species?

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I= infected crustacean ingested by second intermediate host
D= unembronated eggs in feces
87
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Where are Spirometra infections reported?

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Worldwide but predominantly in Southeast Asia

Endemic to animals in North America

88
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What type of infection causes painful inflammatory tissues reactions, nodules and periorbital edema?

A

Sparganosis from spirometra

89
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How does Spirometra ocular diseases get introduced?

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Frog/snake flex as covering for wound near eye

90
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How are Sparganum infections diagnosed?

A

Recovery of sparganum from infected tissue

91
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How is Sparganum infections acquired?

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Eating/drinking infected copepod, undercooked meat, tissue exposure

92
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Stopped on

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Trematoda digestive systems

93
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What do the digestive systems of Trematodas include?

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Mouth
Pharynx
Esophagus
Ceca- blind sac intestines

94
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What are the 3 types of reproductive systems Trematods have?

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Monoecious- male and female in one organism
Dioecious- separate male/femal organisms
Fertilization- cross or self

95
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Most trematodes require two intermediate hosts, what are the ones called that only use one?

A

Schistosome

96
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What are the 4 shapes of intestinal ceca in trematodes?

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Straight
Undulating
Branches
Rejoined

97
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What are the 3 testicular positions of trematodes?

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Para
Oblique
Tandem

98
Q

What is the name of the Lung Fluke?

A

Paragonimus Westermani

99
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What are the two intermediate hosts of Paragonimus Westermani?
What is it’s reservoir host?

A

Snail then Crab/crayfish

Piscivores (fish eating animals)

100
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What is the infective form of Paragonimus Westermani?

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Metacercaria

101
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What is the mode of ingestion of Paragonimus Westermani?

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Ingestion of undercooked crustaceans carrying metcercaria

102
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What is the specimen of choice for laboratory diagnosis of Paragonimus Westermani?

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Sputum or Feces with eggs in it

103
Q

What is the name of the Sheep Liver Fluke?

A

Fasciola Hepatica

104
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How does Fasciola Hepatica cause infections in the body?

A

Eating metacercaria on leafy greens plants

Watercress

105
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Where are adult forms of Fasciola Hepatica found in the body?

A

Bile ducts

Liver tissue

106
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How is Fasciola Haptica diagnosed?

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Eggs in feces
CT scan
ELISA

107
Q

What is the name of the Giant Intestinal Fluke

A

Fasciolopsis Buski

108
Q

Where is Fasciolopsis Buski found geographically?

A

SE Asia
India
China

109
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Stopped On

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Slide 41 F Buski

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