Trematodes Flashcards
Hermaphrodite except
Schistosomes
Infective stage
Metacercaria in 2nd intermediate host
Schistosome infective stage
Cercaria
1st intermediate host
Snail
Blood flukes
Schistosomes in mesenteric veins
Liver flukes
COF
Intestine flukes
FEH
Opistorchis and clonorchis 2nd IH
Fish
Clonorchis diagnostic
Embryonated egg
Liver flukes excyst in
Duodenum
Clonorchis sinensis other names
Chinese or oriental liver fluke
Metacercaria found in
2nd IH
2nd IH clonorchis
Fresh water fish cyprinidae
Adult clonorchis
12-25 mm long x
3-5mm wide
Difference of Clonorchis to Opistorchis
Testes
Clonorchis - 2 branched in tandem
Opistorchis - oblique lobate testes
O. Viverrini - close and deeply lobulated
C. Sinensis stain
Carmine
C. Sinensis juvenile adults reach bile ducts by?
4-7 hours
C. Sinensis produce eggs when?
After 1 month
C. Sinensis feeds on?
Tissue fluids, red blood cells, mucus
Eggs of C. Sinensis
Yellow brown ovoid 26-30um x 15-17um distinct operculum Protuberance at abopercular end Well developed miracidium
Eggs hatch where?
Inside snail
C. Sinensis snails
Parafossarulus manchoricus Bulimus striatulus Semisulcospira Alcocinma longicornis Thiara granifera Melanoides tuberculatus
Miracidium inside snail turns into sporocyst by?
4 hrs
After ___ days will sporocyst asexually reproduce to produce redia?
20