Para Final-ascarids&strongyles Flashcards
Family Ascarididae
-small intestine
-mouth with 3 lips
-males with 2spicules
-oviparous
-oval/rounded eggs with thick shell
-L2 infective
-visceral larva migrans
Genus Toxascaris, Toxocara, Ascaris, Parascaris
Toxascaris
T.leonina
- canids+felids
- direct L.C
- no migration
- rats+reptiles parade if hosts
Toxocara
T.canis -canids S.I -direct L.C -4 routes of infection -lagomorphs are paratenic host T.cati -felids S.I -direct L.C -no prenatal infection -lactogenic infection important T.vitolorum -cattle S.I -no cervical alae -terminal spicule -direct L.C -transplacental+transmammary transmission
Ascaris
A.suum
- swine S.I
- turtle shell like eggs
- direct L.C
- L3 moults in liver
- no transmammary or prenatal transmission
- earthworms+beetles are paratenic hosts
Parascaris
P.equorum
- horse S.I
- 3 large+3 small lips
- male tail with 3 lateral alae
- direct L.C
Family Anisakidae
Anisakis
- zoonotic
- stomach of marine animals
- indirect L.C
- L2 in copepod crustaceans (I.H)
- marine fishes with encapsulated L3 are paratenic hosts
- L3 infectious
Heterakis
H.gallinarum
- small
- in caecum
- direct L.C
- L2 infective
- earthworms are paratenic hosts
- oval eggs
Ascaridia
A.galli and A.columbae
-large
-S.I
-male tail with alae and precloacal sucker
-oval eggs with thick shell
-direct L.C-earthworms with L3 are paratenic hosts
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Order Strongylida
- strongyliform oesophagus
- males with copulatory bursa and 2 spicules
- radiated crown common
Superfamily Trichostrongyloidea
Family Trichostrongylidea
-No buccal capsule
-strongyle type eggs (not nematodirus)
-direct L.C
-L3 is infective
Phostotropic positive and geotropic negative larvae
-L4 hypobiosis
-small hairlike adults
Large nematodes of abomasum
Small nematodes of abomasum
Small nematodes of S.I
Haemonchus
Big nematodes of abomasum -“barbers pole” worm -haematophagous -female with vulvar flap -male with asymmetrical spicules H.concortus-cattle H.placei-cattle
Small nematodes of abomasum
Ostertagia
Marshallagia
Trichostrongylus
Ostertagia
Small nematodes of abomasum -brown -females with vulvar flap -males with symmetrical spicules O.oestertagi-cattle abomasum T.circumtinta-small ruminants
Marshallagia
Small nematodes of abomasum
-large copulatory bursa with large dorsal ray
M.marshalli-ruminants
Trichostrongylus
Small nematodes of abomasum -very small and thin -reddish/brown -short/thick/twisted spicules of unequal length T.axei-ruminants T.columbriformis-ruminants S.I T.vitrinus-ruminants S.I T.capricola-ruminants S.I T.tenuis-birds S.I and caecum
Small nematodes of S.I
Cooperia
Nematodirus
Hyostrongylus
Cooperia
-cephalic vesicles
-reddish/brown
-short spicules
C.curticei-small ruminants S.I
C.punctata-cattle S.I
C.pectinate-cattleS.I
C.oncophora-cattle+sheep S.I
Nematodirus
-cephalic vesicles
-2 long fused spicules, longer than copulatory bursa
-eggs with less than 16 blastomeres
N.spathiger-sheep S.I
N.battis-sheep S.I
N.filicollis-sheep S.I
N.helvetianus-cattle S.I
Hyostrongylus
Swine stomach
- thin reddish
- hematophagus
- copulatory bursa
- direct L.C
- L3 infective
- L4 hypobiotic in stomach mucosa
Superfamily Strgyloidea
- zoonotic
- buccal capsule
- strongyle type eggs
- direct L.C
- L3 infectious