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Parasites: General Concepts & Ectoparasites Flashcards

- key concepts with parasites - mode of infection - types of hosts - life cycle - parasite fitness/survival - food - life cycle strategies - host-parasite balance

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microspora

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  • Phylum: Microsporidia
  • obligate, intracellular protozoan parasites
  • spore-forming
  • infecting every major animal group
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zoonotic microsporidia have to overcome 2 obstacles

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  1. more advance immune systems

2. much higher body temps

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mammalian species

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Enterocytozoon bieneusi

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facultative parasite

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organism that may become parasitic, but does not require a host for completion of its life cycle
- e.g. Blastomyces dermatitidis, Blastomycosis (fungi)

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opportunistic infection

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infection caused by pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi, or protozoa) that take advantage of an opportunity not normally available such as host weakened immune system, altered microbiota or breached integumentary barriers

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parasitism

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when organism for all or part of its life derives at least some, but often all of it’s food from a living organism of another species (host)
- ONE WHO EATS AT ANOTHER’S TABLE

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ectoparasite

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flea living on a dog; flea feeds on dog’s blood which is detrimental to dog

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ectoparasite

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caligid copepod (sea lice) living on skin of fish
- but these parasites spend part of their life cycle as free-living
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endoparasite

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cestode platyhelminth living in intestine of fish and mammals

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parasitism

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Ht - x or X

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commensalism

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Ht +/- 0 (-x)

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mutualism

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Ht + Y

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Helminths

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  • parasitic worms
  • large
  • multicellular
  • vermiform or “worm-like” in form
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Phylum Nematoda

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roundworms

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Phylum Platyhelminthes

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flatworms

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Class Cestoda

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tapeworms

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Class Trematoda

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flukes: endoparasites

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Class Monogenea

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skin flukes: ectoparasites

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Class Turbellaria

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free-living flatworms, some parasitic forms

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Phylum Acanthocephala

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thorny-headed worms

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Phylum Annelida

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segmented worms

- not parasitic (leeches)

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Kingdom Protozoa

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  • Phylum Mastigophora (flagellates)
  • Phylum Apicomplexa
  • Phylum Ciliphora (ciliates)
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Kingdom Animalia

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  • Phylum Arthropoda insects/arachnids, copepods)

- Phylum Cnidaria (Myxozoa)

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parasitism

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non-mutual non-symbiotic relationship btwn species, where one species (parasite) benefits at the expense of the other (host)

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ectoparasite

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live on their host

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endoparasite

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live in their host

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parasites

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  • smaller than their host
  • reduce host biological fitness to some extent (pathogenicity/virulence)
  • typically do not kill their host
  • reproduce at a faster rate than their host
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parasites use the host for survival:

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  • food
  • water
  • heat
  • habitat
  • transmission
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mode of infection

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  • oral
  • skin penetration
  • injection
  • transplacental
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oral mode of infection

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  • spore in environment
  • oocyst/eggs in environment
  • larvae in environment
  • larvae in intermediate host and paratenic host
  • cyst in other host
  • larvae in milk
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intermediate host

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  • required host

- serves as temporary but necessary host for continued development of essential life stages

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paratenic host (transport hosts)

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  • non-required host
  • no development of parasite occurs
  • just transport only
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aberrant (abnormal) host

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host not usually used by parasites, development slow or incomplete

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dead-end (incidental host)

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  • intermediate host that generally does not allow transmission to the definitive host
  • preventing parasite from completing its development
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direct life cycle

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  • only 1 host required to complete life cycle
  • stages in this host and environment
  • host specific or broad host spectrum (non-specific)
  • definitive host
  • parasites that sexually reproduce without an intermediate host have direct life cycles
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indirect life cycle

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  • 2 or more hosts required to complete the life cycle
  • host specific or broad host spectrum (non-specific)
  • final host: sexual repro
  • intermediate host
  • involves stages in the hosts & environment
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Dirofilaria immitis

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indirect life cycle

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Toxocara canis

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Direct life cycle; Paratenic host

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Toxocara canis

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Direct life cycle; aberrant host (human)

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indirect life cycle with Paratenic Host

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feline host: worm life cycle involving snails and birds

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Sexual

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  • genetic diversity
  • longer life cycle
  • must have at least 2 parasites (M&F)
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Asexual

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  • lack of genetic diversity
  • short life cycle
  • one is enough!
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Nematode life cycle

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Direct life cycle; sexual repro

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Toxoplasma gondii

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Indirect life cycle; a/sexual repro

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Benefits from host

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survival

  • heat
  • food & water
  • habitat
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Heat

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arrested development/hypobiotic stage

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Hypobiosis

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arrested development that has a seasonal basis

- e.g. nematodes

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Food

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blood, mucosal lining, etc

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Predilection site

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preferred site in or on host

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Aberrant site

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site in or on host chichis not normal location

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Parasite - host balance

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  • parasite
  • host & host response
  • environment
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The parasite

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  • number of parasites
  • location of parasites; migration
  • transmission
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The host response

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  • previous exposure
  • type of host response (inflammatory, immune, etc.)
  • nutritional status (health of host)
  • age of the host (immune status)
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parasite x host x environment

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  • environmental factors that
    • increase parasites
    • increase hypobiosis
    • decrease immunity
  • management
  • geographical location
  • weather
  • physical presence, activity or production of toxic products
  • size, numbers and behavior of parasites
  • how and how much the parasite feeds
  • the host’s response
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-iasis

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presence of parasite

- e.g. Coccidiasis

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-osis

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disease caused by parasite

- e.g. Coccidiosis

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Demodex (Arachnida)

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  • ectoparasitic mite
  • present in low numbers in healthy dogs
  • not usually contagious unless suppressed immune system
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Blepharitis

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  • first documented case of Demodex in humans

- prevalent in the old, and very under diagnosed in humans

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Ectoparasites as vectors

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Any organism (vertebrate or invertebrate) that functions as a carrier of an infectious agent btwn organisms of a different species)

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Ectoparasites with high veterinary importance

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  • Ehrlichia: genus of rickettsial bacteria that is transmitted to vertebrates by ticks
  • Anaplasma phagocytophilum: bacterial infection of the white blood cells (neutrophils) that’s transmitted by deer tick
  • heart worm: parasitic roundworm that is spread from host to host through mosquitos
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Class: Monogenea

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  • ectoparasitic flatworms
  • Phylum: Platyhelminthes
  • no true body cavity or coelom
  • can be quite large
  • simple digestive system: mouth, pharynx, and intestine (no anus)
  • poorly developed suckers, attachment vis hooks
  • hermaphroditic, mostly producing eggs, some are viviparous
  • ancestrally related to Turbellaria (free-living flatworms) and closest to modern cestodes
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Class: Monogenea lifecycle

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  • direct life cycle

- involving 1 host

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Gyrodactylus

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  • class: monogenea
  • viviparous
  • some species extremely pathogenic
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Udonella spp.

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  • Class: Monogenea
  • ectoparasitic flatworm
  • obligate parasite
  • lost attachment hooks during evolution due to epibiosis
  • ectocommensal
  • ultimate ‘hitchhikers’
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epibiosis

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?

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phoresis

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?

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commensalism

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when smaller symbiont feeds on the food available in or on the surface of the host for whom it is unusable or unwanted (host neither benefits or is harmed)

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ectocommensal

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flagellates feeding on bacteria on surface of fish

- not negatively impacting host

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endocommensal

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entamoeba sp. feeding on bacteria in human intestine

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