Practical Flashcards

Dipylidium caninum scolex
conical-shaped and has four suckers

Dipylidium caninum
note: double pored, longer than width

Dipylidium caninum
egg packet of 8-15 eggs

Hymenolepis diminuta scolex
Flat, rostellum with no hoooks

Hymenolepis diminuta
immature segment
3 testes
1 ovary

Hymenolepis diminuta
gravid segment

Hymenolepis diminuta
Mature segment

Diphylobothrium segment

Hymenolepis nana
scolex

Hymenolepis nana
segment

Diphyllobothrium latum
gravid segment

Taenia solium
scolex


Taenia saginata
ovum
indistinguishable from T. solium
double layer, radial striations

T. solium
Cysticercus cellulosae

Diphyllobothrium latum
egg
operculated

Trichuris trichiura
ovum

Hymenolepis diminuta
ovum

Ascaris lumbricoides
fertilized and corticated

Ascaris lumbricoides
unfertilized / decorticated

Enterobius vermicularis
ovum
D shaped

Hookworm rhabditiform larva

Hookworm filariform larva

Strongyloides filariform larva





