Week 5: Cestodes Flashcards
Which tapeworm life cycle stage is infective for the intermediate host?
Eggs
What are the parts of an adult tapeworm?
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What are the parts of a tapeworm egg?
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What kind of tapeworm stages can you use for stool samples?
- Proglottids
- Whole tapeworms
Which tapeworm stage can you use for concentration in the lab?
Eggs
What are the two Taenia species and what are their primary non-human hosts?
- Taenia saginata: beef
- Taenia solium: pork
Describe the lifecycle of Taenia species. Include infective and diagnostic stages
Infective stage: Embryonated eggs ingested by human host
Diagnostic stage: Adults in small intestine
Describe Taenia species’ eggs
- Round
- 30-43 microns
- thick cell wall with radial striations
- inside of embryonated egg 6-hooked oncosphere (refer to image)
Which Taenia parts are found in the feces?
- eggs
- scolex
- proglottids (segmented part)
What is the scolex?
It’s the head of the tapeworm
Since can’t look at eggs to differentiate between Taenia species, what do you look at instead?
Uterine branches of gravid proglottids. Solium has fewer branches while saginata has more branches
Identify the genital pores of the proglottid and the Taenia species
How do you distinguish between the scolex of Taenia solium and saginata?
T. solium has rostellum with a double row of hooklets. But both have 4 suckers
Which human disease is Taenia solium associated with? Signs/symptoms caused by what?
Cystercosis
Cysticerous stage disseminated throughout body causes muscle, brain, eye, and CNS symptoms
What are the 2 Hymenolepsis spp?
- nana dwarf tapeworm
- diminuta rat tapeworm
Describe the Hymenolepsis nana life cycle. Include infective and diagnostic stages
- Infective: embryonated egg ingested by humans in contaminated food, water, or hands. Also embryonated egg in feces is infectious
- Diagnostic: Embryonated egg in feces
Describe Hymenolepsis nana eggs
- Oval shaped
- 30-50 microns
- Inner membrane with polar filaments
- Oncosphere has 6 hooks
Describe the Hymenolepsis diminuta life cycle. Include infective and diagnostic stages
- Infective stage: Cysticerci in body cavity of insect ingested by rodent or human
- Diagnostic stage: Eggs passed in feces
Describe Hymenolepsis diminuta eggs
- Size = 70-85 microns
-Round or slightly oval - Striated outer membrane
- Thin inner membrane
- Zero polar filaments
- Oncosphere has 6 hooks
Describe the fish tapeworm aka Diphyllobothrium latum life cycle. Include infective and diagnostic stages
- Infective stage: Human ingests raw or undercooked, infected fish
- Diagnostic stage: Unembryonated eggs passed in feces
Where is Diphyllobothrium latum found?
Found worldwide where pickled or raw freshwater fish is eaten
Describe the Diphyllobothrium latum egg
- Unembryonated
- Operculated (refers to the end of the egg having a lid- or cap-like cover)
- Bile stained
- Size= 58-76 by 40-50 microns
- Knoblike structure on the end opposite the operculum
Which stages of Diphyllobothrium latum are ID’d for lab diagnosis?
- scolex
- proglottid
- egg
Does pickling readily kill Diphyllobothrium latum?
No. Does not readily destroy eggs. Cooking does kill the eggs
What is the animal host of Echinococcus granulosis?
Dogs
Sorry, Scooby Doo
Describe the life cycle of Echinococcus granulosis? Include infective and diagnostic stages
- Infective stage: Embryonated egg in feces
- Diagnostic stage: Hydatid cyst in liver, lungs, brain, bone, heart
Which disease is Echinococcus granulosis? associated with?
Hydatid cyst disease
What does the Echinococcus granulosis larval stage produce? Describe
Hydatid cysts
Contain fluid, brood capsules, and daughter cysts in which the scolices (plural of scolex) of potential tapeworms are formed. Material inside called hydatid sand