Summary with scientific names Flashcards
1
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Trematodes general info
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leaf like flattened
gut present
feed on blood, tissue or GIT content
2
Q
Fasciola hepatic and gigantica
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trematode
acute = liver rot, black disease, secondary infection
chronic = anaemia, enlarged liver and bile ducts bottle jaw
Life cycle
- egg
- miracidum
- cercaria
- metacercariae
- larve (penetrate SI)
- adults
3
Q
Paramhistomes
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Stomach flukes
- adults don’t cause disease, heavy burdens of juveniles –> diarrhoea, appetite loss
- move to intestine and then migrate to rumen and reticulum
- metacercaria encyst on vegetation
4
Q
Schistosomes
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important zoonoses
- trematodes
5
Q
Cestodes general characteristics
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Elongated w/ proglottids
no GIT
anterior hold fast
transmission = mostly passive by predation
has two orders one of them is Cyclophyllidea
6
Q
Cyclophyllidea and its three families
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one of the cestodes order,
Taeniidae
Dilepidiobe
Anonplocephalide
7
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Taeniidae
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