Trematodes Flashcards
Larval stages of Digenean Flukes
Egg
1. Miracidium
2. Sporocyst
3. Radia
4. Cercaria
5. Metacercaria
Trematodes acquired by Eating metacercaria encysted on vegetation
Family Fasciolidae
Family Paramphistomatidae
Trematodes acquired by eating a 2nd intermediate host
Family Clinostomidae
Family Dicrocoeliidae
Family Heterophyidae
Family Prosthogonimidae
Family Opisthorchiidae
Family Nanophyetidae
Family Echinostomatidae
Family Paragonimidae
Trematodes acquired by active skin penetration
Family Schistosomatidae
Pathogenicity of Flukes:
Obstruction in Bile ducts and liver cirrhosis
Fasciola, Dicrocoelium
Pathogenicity of Flukes: Gastric and intestinal ulceration leading to hemorrhage
Paramphistomidae,
Heterophyes
Pathogenicity of Flukes: Catarrhal inflammation of pancreatic ducts
Eurytrema pancreaticum
Pathogenicity of Flukes: Laryngopharyngitis
Clinostomum complanatum
Pathogenicity of Flukes: Decalcification and perforation of frontal sinus bone
Troglotrema acutum
Pathogenicity of Flukes: Bronchiolitis and Pneumonia
Paragonimus spp.
Pathogenicity of Flukes: Inflammation of the oviduct and Bursa of Fabricius
Prosthogonimus spp.
Pathogenicity of Flukes: Transmission of Pathogens
Nanophyetes salminocola transmits Neorickettsia helminthoeca
Species of Digenean fluke that does not have a radial stage
Schistosoma japonicum/ Schistosoma spp.
Dicrocoelium dendriticum
Eurytrema pancreaticum
Most common amphistome affecting cattle and carabaos in the Philippines
10-20 mm long and 3-5 mm wide
Egg size: 125-152 μm long, 65-75 μm wide
Fischoederius elongatus
2nd most common amphistome in the Philippines
o Shorter body (8-10 mm long)
o Egg size: 110-120 μm long, 60-75 μm wide
Fischoederius cobboldi
The special integument of parasitic flukes that allows it to withstand the gastric and digestive enzymes of its host.
Syncytial tegument
“true flukes”
“two” ; “generation”
Class Trematoda
Subclass Diginea
Prosthogonimus pellucidus
PS: bursa of fabricius, oviduct and posterior intestine of domestic and wild birds.
IH1: fresh water snail
IH2: dragon fly
DH:fowl, duck, wild birds
Parasites of the bile ducts of carnivores
IH2: are cyprinid fishes
Flat and fusiform-shaped
-Testes(lobed/branched) posterior to ovary, both located on posterior part of body
-vitelline glands : middle lateral fields
Family Opisthorichiidae
the zoonotic agents/parasites are restricted only to vertebrate hosts.
Cyclozoonosis
Excretory tubular network is called?
protonephridia
commonly called the planarians, they are mainly free-living carnivorous flatworms and are of no veterinary significance
Class Turbellaria
flukes that are ectoparasitic to cold-blooded aquatic or amphibious vertebrates and invertebrates, and has a direct life cycle.
Class Monogenea
a parasitic group characterized by the lack of a digestive tract and a body that is segmented into individual reproductive units.
Class Cestoda
A roughly triangular shaped larva, with a broad anterior end
- It is completely covered with cilia
- It possesses and anterior spine at the anterior end, which it uses to bore into the snail IH
- In some species, this (still encased in the egg) must be consumed by the snail.
Miracidium
The ciliated coat is lost upon penetration into the snail IH
It is an undifferentiated mass of cells and therefore does not feed
The germinal cells inside it will multiply and will produce either daughter sporocysts or radiae
Sporocyst