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Week 5: Cestodes Flashcards

1
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Which tapeworm life cycle stage is infective for the intermediate host?

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Eggs

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2
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What are the parts of an adult tapeworm?

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:)

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What are the parts of a tapeworm egg?

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:P

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What kind of tapeworm stages can you use for stool samples?

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  • Proglottids
  • Whole tapeworms
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5
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Which tapeworm stage can you use for concentration in the lab?

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Eggs

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What are the two Taenia species and what are their primary non-human hosts?

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  • Taenia saginata: beef
  • Taenia solium: pork
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Describe the lifecycle of Taenia species. Include infective and diagnostic stages

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Infective stage: Embryonated eggs ingested by human host

Diagnostic stage: Adults in small intestine

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8
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Describe Taenia species’ eggs

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  • Round
  • 30-43 microns
  • thick cell wall with radial striations
  • inside of embryonated egg 6-hooked oncosphere (refer to image)
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9
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Which Taenia parts are found in the feces?

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  • eggs
  • scolex
  • proglottids (segmented part)
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10
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What is the scolex?

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It’s the head of the tapeworm

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Since can’t look at eggs to differentiate between Taenia species, what do you look at instead?

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Uterine branches of gravid proglottids. Solium has fewer branches while saginata has more branches

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12
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Identify the genital pores of the proglottid and the Taenia species

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13
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How do you distinguish between the scolex of Taenia solium and saginata?

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T. solium has rostellum with a double row of hooklets. But both have 4 suckers

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14
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Which human disease is Taenia solium associated with? Signs/symptoms caused by what?

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Cystercosis

Cysticerous stage disseminated throughout body causes muscle, brain, eye, and CNS symptoms

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15
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What are the 2 Hymenolepsis spp?

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  • nana dwarf tapeworm
  • diminuta rat tapeworm
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16
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Describe the Hymenolepsis nana life cycle. Include infective and diagnostic stages

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  • Infective: embryonated egg ingested by humans in contaminated food, water, or hands. Also embryonated egg in feces is infectious
  • Diagnostic: Embryonated egg in feces
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17
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Describe Hymenolepsis nana eggs

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  • Oval shaped
  • 30-50 microns
  • Inner membrane with polar filaments
  • Oncosphere has 6 hooks
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18
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Describe the Hymenolepsis diminuta life cycle. Include infective and diagnostic stages

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  • Infective stage: Cysticerci in body cavity of insect ingested by rodent or human
  • Diagnostic stage: Eggs passed in feces
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Describe Hymenolepsis diminuta eggs

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  • Size = 70-85 microns
    -Round or slightly oval
  • Striated outer membrane
  • Thin inner membrane
  • Zero polar filaments
  • Oncosphere has 6 hooks
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20
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Describe the fish tapeworm aka Diphyllobothrium latum life cycle. Include infective and diagnostic stages

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  • Infective stage: Human ingests raw or undercooked, infected fish
  • Diagnostic stage: Unembryonated eggs passed in feces
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21
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Where is Diphyllobothrium latum found?

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Found worldwide where pickled or raw freshwater fish is eaten

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22
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Describe the Diphyllobothrium latum egg

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  • 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
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23
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Which stages of Diphyllobothrium latum are ID’d for lab diagnosis?

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  • scolex
  • proglottid
  • egg
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24
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Does pickling readily kill Diphyllobothrium latum?

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No. Does not readily destroy eggs. Cooking does kill the eggs

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25
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What is the animal host of Echinococcus granulosis?

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Dogs

Sorry, Scooby Doo

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26
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Describe the life cycle of Echinococcus granulosis? Include infective and diagnostic stages

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  • Infective stage: Embryonated egg in feces
  • Diagnostic stage: Hydatid cyst in liver, lungs, brain, bone, heart
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27
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Which disease is Echinococcus granulosis? associated with?

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Hydatid cyst disease

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28
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What does the Echinococcus granulosis larval stage produce? Describe

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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

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29
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What determines hydatid cyst size

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The organ it grows in. It’ll just keep growing until it can’t anymore

30
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What are two types of flukes/trematodes (in reference to their reproductive aspect). Where do they live?

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  1. Hermaphroditic adults: live in intestine, lungs, and liver
  2. Unisexual adults: live within blood vessels (aka blood flukes)
31
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What is the genus of the blood flukes?

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Schistosoma

32
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Describe the general trematode life cycle

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Ain’t no way I’m typing all this :)

33
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Describe the Paragonimus westermani life cycle. Include infective and diagnostic stages

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  • Infective stage: humans ingest inadequately cooked or pickled crustaceans containing metacercariae (cysts)
  • Diagnostic stage: unembryonated eggs in stool or sputum (cuz they’re lung flukes). Harder to find in stool though. Better chance finding them in the lungs
34
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Describe the Paragonimus westermani egg

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  • Size: 80-118 microns by 48-60 microns
  • oval, flattend operculum
  • slight shoulders
  • unembryonated
  • Thickened area opposite the operculum
35
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Describe the Fasciolopsis buski life cycle. Include infective and diagnostic stages

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  • Infective stage: Metacercariae on water plant ingested by humans or pigs, causing infection
  • Diagnostic stage: Unembryonated eggs passed in feces.
36
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What is the size of Fasciolopsis buski adults?

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3-7 microns

37
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Describe Fasciolopsis buski eggs

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  • Size = 130-140 by 80-85 microns
  • Bile stained
  • Inconspicuous operculum
  • Unembryonated
  • **Identical to Fasciola hepatica so report as Fasciola/Fasciolopsis **
38
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Describe the Fasciola hepatica life cycle. Include infective and diagnostic stages

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  • Infective stage: Metacercariae on water plant ingested by human, sheep, or cattle
  • Diagnostic stage: Unembryonated egg passed in feces
39
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Describe Fasciola hepatica eggs

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  • Size= 130-150 microns by 60-90 microns
  • Unembryonated
  • Inconspicuous operculum
  • Identical to Fasciolopsis buski
40
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Describe the Clonorchis sinensis life cycle. Include infective and diagnostic stages

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  • Infective stage: Metacercariae in flesh or skin of fresh water fish are ingested by human host
  • Diagnostic stage: Embryonated eggs passed in feces
41
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Size of Clonorchis sinensis adults?

42
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Describe the Clonorchis sinensis egg

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  • Size - 29-35 microns
  • Embryonated
  • Flask shaped
  • Operculated with prominent shoulders (Darrell underlined this part in the slides(
  • Knob at the end opposite the operculum
43
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Describe the Metagonimus yokogawai and Heterophyes heterophyes life cycles. Include infective and diagnostic stages

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  • Infective stage: Host becomes infected by ingesting undercooked fish containing metacercariae
  • Diagnostic stage: Embryonated eggs each with a fully-developed miracidium are passed in the feces
44
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Describe the Metagonimus yokogawai and Heterophyes heterophyes eggs (same features)

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  • Size - 28-39 microns
  • Embryonated
  • Operculated with inconspicuous shoulders (Darrell underlined in slides)
  • Vase or flask shaped
  • Resemble Clonorchis sinensis and Opisthorchis species
45
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True or false: Schistosoma eggs are operculated

46
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What is the ONE intermediate blood fluke host?

47
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How do blood flukes infect humans?

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Cercarial penetration of skin

48
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Describe the Schistosoma life cycle. Include infective and diagnostic stages

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  • Infective stage: cCercariae released by snail into water and free-swimming penetrate human skin
  • Diagnostic stage: Passed in feces (mansoni, japonicum, and haematobium) or urine (japonicum or haematobium)
49
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Where do S. mansoni, japonicum, and haematobium mainly live in the human host?

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  • mansoni: veins of the large intestine
  • japonicum: veins of the small intestine
  • haematobium: veins of the bladder
50
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Describe Schistosoma mansoni eggs

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  • Size = 115-175 by 45-75 microns
  • Prominent lateral spine
51
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How do you diagnose S. mansoni in the lab?

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Fin embryonated eggs in the feces

52
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Describe Schistosoma japonicum egg

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  • Size = 60-95 by 40-60 microns
  • Small, curved spine that can be difficult to see
53
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Describe Schistosoma haematobium eggs

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  • Size: 110-170 microns by 40-70 microns
  • Terminal spine
54
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Practice. Identify the parasite

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Taenia spp. egg

55
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ID the parasite

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Taenia solium proglottid

56
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ID the parasite

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Taenia saginata proglottid

57
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ID the parasite

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Hymenolepsis nana egg

58
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ID the parasite

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Hymenolepsis diminuta egg

59
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ID the parasite

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Diphyllobothrium latum egg

60
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ID the parasite

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Echinococcus granulosus hydatid cyst

61
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ID the parasite

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Paragonimus westermani egg

62
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ID the parasite

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Fasciolopsis buski egg

63
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ID the parasite

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Fasciola hepatica egg

64
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ID the parasite

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Clonorchis sinensis egg

65
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ID the parasite

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Clonorchis sinensis adult

66
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ID the parasite

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Metagonimus yokogawai adult fluke

67
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ID the parasite

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Metagonimus yokogawai egg

68
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ID the parasite

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Heterophyes heterophyes

69
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ID the parasite

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Schistosoma mansoni egg

70
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ID the parasite

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Schistosoma japonicum egg

71
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ID the parasite

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Schistosoma haematobium egg

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