Test 4: Trematodes (Flukes) Flashcards
What parasite has an incomplete digestive tract containing a mouth, pharynx, and esophagus, and blind-sac intestines (ceca)?
Trematoda
What is the largest subclass of Trematoda, which are found in every major organ, includes all trematodes that parasitize man?
Digenea
Describe the general body shape of the Class Trematoda: Flukes.
- Flattened dorso-ventrally
- Leaf-shaped
- Monozoic (one body part)
How many Suckers and describe them, do Class Trematoda: Flukes have?
Two
- Oral Sucker: Mouth
- Ventral Sucker: Acetabulum (Hold-fast organ)
What is the common name of paragonimus westermani?
Lung Fluke
What is the pathogenesis of the Lung Fluke (Paragonimus Westermani)?
- Tuberculosis-like symptoms
- Lung damage: Fibrosis
- Migratory tissue damage
- Extra Pulmonary Abscesses
What is the treatment for the Lung Fluke?
Praziquantel
Bithionol
The Lung fluke has a geographical distribution where?
Asia
S. America
Africa
India
What is the mode of infection for the lung fluke?
Ingestion
What is the habitat for the lung fluke (Paragonimus Westermani)?
Lung
What are the intermediate host for the Lung Fluke?
1st: Snail
2nd: Crab or Crayfish
What is the reservoir host for the Lung Fluke?
Piscivores (Fish-eating animals)
In the life cycle of the Lung Fluke what is the infective form?
Metacercaria: Ingested in inadequately cooked or pickled crustaceans
In the laboratory identification of the Lung Fluke what is the specimen of choice?
Sputum (also feces)
- Sputum exam
- Formalin-ethyl acetate (FEA)
What other tests may be used to diagnosis the lung fluke?
- X-ray
- Biopsies
- Immunodiagnostic test: ELISA, immunoblot, monoclonal Ab
What is the shape and color of the Ova of a Lung Fluke?
Shape: Oval
Color: Golden Brown
The Ova of the Lung Fluke has what at the broad end, w/what kind of thickening, and what kind of content?
- Oerculum
- Content: Yolk mass, variable size granules in yolk
- Abopercular thickening
What is an Adult Lung Fluke identified?
- Shape: Oval Body
- Color: Reddish-brown
- Intestinal Ceca: Undulating
- Testes: Deeply lobate and para
What is the common name of Fasciola hepatica?
Sheep Liver Fluke
What is the pathogenesis of Fasciola Hepatica (Sheep Liver Fluke)?
- Mechanical destruction of liver tissue
- Fibrosis
What is the treatment of the Sheep Liver Fluke (Fasciola Hepatica)?
Bithionol
Dehydroemetine
Where is Fasciola Hepatica (Sheep Liver Fluke) found?
Worldwide; Sheep raising countries
What is the diagnostic stage in the life cycle of the sheep liver fluke?
Unembroynated eggs passed in feces
What is the infective stage of the life cycle of the sheep liver fluke (fasciola hepatica)?
Metacercariae: on water plant ingested by human, sheep, cattle
What is the habitat of the Sheep Liver Fluke (Fasciola hepatica)?
Bile passages of the liver
What are the intermediates hosts of the sheep liver fluke?
1st: Snail
2nd: Fresh water vegetation
The reservoir hosts for the Sheep Liver Fluke are?
Herbivores
Carnivores
What is the infective form of the Sheep Liver Fluke (Fasciola Hepatica)?
Metacercaria
What is the mode of infection of Fasciola Hepatica?
Ingestion
What is the specimen of choice for laboratory identification?
Feces (Formalin-ethyl acetate (FEA))
The Fasciola hepatica Ova has what shape and color?
Hen’s egg; oval
Light yellowish brown
The sheep liver fluke Ova Content has what appearance and this is present but indistinct?
Yolk mass; fills the egg
Operculum-present but indistinct
The adult form of the Sheep Lung Fluke has what shape, color, and intestinal ceca?
- Shape: Leaf-like, prominent cephalic cone
- Color: Brownish
- Intestinal ceca: Branched
What is the common name of Fasciolopsis buski?
Giant Intestinal Fluke
What is the pathogenesis of the Giant Intestinal Fluke (Fasciolopsis buski)?
- Intestinal upset/obstruction
- Toxemia
- Inflammation
Treatment for Giant Intestinal Fluke (Fasciolopsis buski) infection?
Praziquantel
Niclosamide
What is the geographical distribution for the Giant Intestinal Fluke?
Southeast Asia
India
What is the habitat of the Giant Intestinal Fluke (Fasciolopsis buski)?
Small intestines
Name the intermediate host of Fasciolopsis buski (Giant Intestinal Fluke)?
1st: Snail
2nd: Aquatic vegetation
What are the reservoir host of the Giant Intestinal Fluke (Fasciolopsis buski)?
Pigs, dogs, and rabbits