TREMATODES Flashcards
These are flatworms commonly known as
FLUKES
With oral and ventral sucker (acetabulum)
TREMATODES
Body is covered by an ? which often bears spines, tubercles
Integument
4 types trematodes habitat
BLOOD, LUNG, LIVER, INTESTINAL FLUKES
BLOOD FLUKE INFECTIVE STAGE
FORK TAILED CERCARIA
BLOOD FLUKE MODE OF TRANSMISSION
SKIN PENETRATION
BLOOD FLUKE # OF HOST REQUIRED
2 HOST
1 Intermediate Host
Snails / Mollusks
Oriental Blood Fluke
Schistosoma japonicum
Vesical Blood Fluke
Schistosoma haematobium
Manson’s Blood fluke
Schistosoma mansoni
INFECTIVE STAGE OF PULMONARY OR LUNG FLUKE, LIVER OR HEPATIC FLUKE, INTESTINAL FLUKE
METACERCARIA
MODE OF TRANSMISSION OF PULMONARY OR LUNG FLUKE, LIVER OR HEPATIC FLUKE, INTESTINAL FLUKE
INGESTION
OF HOST REQUIRED IN PULMONARY OR LUNG FLUKE, LIVER OR HEPATIC FLUKE, INTESTINAL FLUKE
TOTAL INTERMEDIATE HOST OF LIVER, LUNG AND INTESTINAL FLUKES
Total # of Hosts = 3
1 Definitive Host
Man
2 Intermediate Hosts (varies species)
1 IH = SNAILS
2 IH = it could be fish, snails, crabs or fresh water , vegetation
Oriental Lung fluke
Paragonimus westermani
3 LIVER OR HEPATIC FLUKE
Fasciola hepatica , Clonorchis sinensis, Opistorchis felineus
4 INTESTINAL FLUKE
Fasciolopsis buski, Echinostoma ilocanum , Heterophyes Hetereophyes , Metagonimus yokogawai
Sheep Liver Fluke
Fasciola hepatica
Chinese Liver Fluke
Oriental Liver Fluke
Clonorchis sinensis
Cat Liver Flukes
Opistorchis felineus
Busk Fluke
Fasciolopsis buski
Giant Intestinal Fluke
Fasciolopsis buski
Garrison’s Fluke
Echinostoma ilocanum
Von Siebold Fluke
Dwarf Fluke
Heterophyes
Hetereophyes
Yokogawa’s fluke
Metagonimus yokogawai
DEADLIEST” with 3rd sucker
Heterophyes
Hetereophyes
GENITAL SUCKER/ GONOTYL
3rd sucker
TEMPERATE LIVER FLUKE
Fasciola hepatica
SCHISTOSOMA INFECT FOUND IN
MESENTERIC VEINS NOT IN BLOOD
Non- hermaphroditic/ Dioecious:
HAVE SEPARATE SEXES
BLOOD FLUKES
Not leaf like body of adult worm
Blood Flukes
Male worms are shorter & ?
Robust
Females are longer & ?
slender( HEALTHY)
Both male & female are provided with ?
oral & ventral suckers
(ACETEBELUM)
Used by male worms to carry female during copulation
Gynecophoric canal
Blood Flukes Adult worms produce ____ eggs
non-operculated eggs
It is a larva equipped with mouth,
GIT & tail.
Cercaria
Tail is always
FORKED
Diagnostic Stage Of Blood Flukes
Egg & Ova
Entry of their cercaria to human skin can lead to infection called ?
SCHISTOSOMIASIS and BILHARZIASIS
Superior mesenteric veins
S. japonicum
Inferior mesenteric veins or veins draining rectum
S. mansoni
Vesical veins or veins draining the urinary bladder
S. haematobium
SPECIMEN for DIAGNOSIS : S. japonicum & S. mansoni
STOOL
SPECIMEN for DIAGNOSIS : S. haematobium
URINE
With smooth integument
S. japonicum
With coarse tuberculations integument
S. mansoni
With fine tuberculations integuments
S. haematobium
S. japonicum NO. of EGGS in UTERUS
50 - 100
S. mansoni NO. of EGGS in UTERUS
1-4
S. haematobium NO. of EGGS in UTERUS
20-30
LARGEST ADULT BLOOD FLUKE
SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM
SMALLEST ADULT BLOOD FLUKE
SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI