Nematodes (Roundworms) Flashcards
Ascaroidea (Ascarids)
What are the Ascarids of dogs and cats?
Toxocara canis
Toxocara cati
Toxocara leonina
Where are Ascarids (roundworms) found?
Small intestine of dogs and cats
Most areas of the world
What do adult Ascarids look like?
3cm to 18cm in length
Usually tightly coiled when passed.
What do eggs of Toxocara spp. look like?
Spherical
Deeply pigmented center
Rough pitted outer shell
What is the prepatent period of Toxocara canis?
21 - 35 days
What is the prepatent period of Toxocara leonina?
74 days
What is the “equine ascarid” or the “equine roundworm?”
Parascaris equorum
What is the prepatent period of Parascaris equorum?
75 to 80 days
What do eggs of Parascaris equorum look like?
Oval
Brown
Thick shell
Finely granular surface
90 to 100um
Center of egg contains 1 or 2 cells
Recovered with fecal flotation
Where is Toxocara (Neoascaris) vitulorum found?
Calves
Where are Ascaris suum found?
Small intestine of swine
What do eggs of Ascaris suum look like?
Oval
Golden brown
Thick albuminous shell that bears prominent projections
70 to 80um by 37 to 40 um
What is the common name for Strongyloidea?
Hookworms
What is the canine hookworm called?
Ancylostoma caninum
What is the feline hookworm called?
Ancylostoma tubaeforme
What is a hookworm common to both dogs and cats?
Ancylostoma braziliense
What is the northern canine hookworm?
Uncinaria stenocephala
What is the hookworm of ruminants?
Bunostomum phlebotomum
What do eggs of all hookworms look like?
Oval or ellipsoid
Thin walls
Contain 8 to 16 cells when passed in feces
Recovered in standard fecal flotation
What is the general term for nematodes that parasitize the large intestine of horses?
Strongly es
What are the large strongyles?
Strongyloidea vulgaris
Strongylus edentatus
Strongylus equinus
What do strongyle eggs look like?
Contain an 8 to 16 cell morula
70 to 90um by 40 to 50 um
What is the nodular worm of swine?
Oesophagostomum dentatum
What is the prepatent period of Oesophagostomum dentatum?
50 days
What do eggs of Oesophagostomum dentatum look like?
trichostrongyle type = oval, thin shelled
Contain 4 to 16 cells
40um by 70um
Fecal flotation
Where are bovine trichostongyle nematodes found?
Within the abomassum and the small and large intestines of cattle and other ruminants.
What are the 7 genera of nematodes that produce trichostrongyle-type eggs?
Bunostomum Cooperia Chabertia Haemonchus Oesophagostomum Ostertagia Trichostrongylus
What do the eggs of bovine trichostrongyles look like?
Oval Thin shelled Contain 4 or more cells 70 to 120um long identification of exact species usually involves fecal culture and larval identification
What 2 species of trichostrongyles have much larger eggs?
Nematodirus
Marshallagia
What is the lungworm species of cattle?
Dictyocaulus
What are the lungworms of cattle called
Dictyocaulus viviparus
What are the lungworms of sheep and goats?
Dictyocaulus filaria
Where are adult Dictyocaulus found in the animal?
Bronchi
What is the equine lungworm called?
Dictyocaulus arnfieldi
What is the usual prepatent period of Dictyocaulus?
28 days
What is the ‘red stomach worm” of swine?
Hyostrongylus rubidus
What do the Hyostrongylus rubidus eggs look like?
trichostrongyle type
contain 4 or more cells
71um to 78um by 35um to 42um
recovered with fecal flotation
What is the prepatent period of Hyostrongylus rubidus?
20 days
What is the name of the “feline trichostrongyle?”
Ollulanus tricuspis
What is the main symptom of cats who have Ollulanus tricuspis?
vomiting
What are the names of the 3 “intestinal threadworms?”
Strongyloides stercoralis
Strongyloides tumefaciens
Strongyloides papillosus
What is Rhabditoidea?
Threadworms
How are the Strongyloides spp. unique?
Only a parthenogenetic female is parasitic
What does parthenogenetic mean?
Can lay eggs without copulation with a male
What is the parthenogenetic life cycle of female nematodes?
Produce eggs
Eggs hatch in the intestine of dog and release first-stage larvae.
What do larvae of Strongyloides look like?
280um to 310um long
Have a rhabditiform (club-shaped espphagus) with a club-shaped cranial corpus.
Have a narrow medium isthmus and a caudal bulb
What is the prepatent period of Strongyloides?
8 to 14 days
What is the intestinal threadworm of horses?
Strongyloides westeri
What do Strongyloides westeri eggs look like?
larvated
40um to 52um by 32um to 40um
How are Strongyloides westeri eggs recovered?
fecal flotation of fresh feces
What is the prepatent period of Strongyloides westeri?
5 to 7 days
What is the intestinal threadworm of pigs?
Strongyloides ransomi
Eggs of Strongyloides ransomi
larvated eggs
45um to 55um by 26um to 35um
How eggs of Strongyloides ransomi recovered?
fecal flotation of fresh feces
Prepatent period of Strongyloides ransomi?
3 to 7 days
Metastrongyloides?
Lungworms
What is the “hair lungworm”?
Muellerius capillaris
Where are adult Muellerius capillaris found?
In bronchioles (nodules in lung parenchyma) of sheep and goats
Where do eggs develop and how are larvae shed?
Eggs develop in lungs of definitive host
Larvae are coughed up, swallowed, and passed out in feces?
Muellerius capillaris larvae?
230um to 300um long
Tail has an undulating tim and dorsal spine
What are the Protostrongylus species?
Lungworms of sheep and goats
Where are Protostrongylus found?
small bronchioles of sheep and goats
Eggs and larvae of Protostrongylus?
Develop in lungs of sheep and goats
Larvae coughed up, swallowed, and passed out in feces.
What do Protostrongylus larvae look like?
250um to 320um
undulating tip
no dorsal spine
Diagnosis of lungworm in ruminants?
Baermann technique
What is the swine lungworm?
Metastrongylus apri
Where are Metastrongylus apri found?
bronchi and bronchioles of swine
Eggs of Metastrongylus apri?
oval
thick walled
60um by 40um
contain larvae
Recovery of Metastrongylus apri eggs?
fecal flotation using flotation medium with specific gravity of more than 1.25 or
fecal sedimentation technique