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    The document summarizes key characteristics and life cycles of trematodes of the genus Schistosoma, which are known as blood flukes. It lists three main species - S. japonicum, S. mansoni, and S. haematobium - and provides details on their habitat within the body, the eggs they produce, their intermediate hosts, and the pathologies they can cause in humans. It also includes a table comparing characteristics of several trematode species, including their common names, first and second intermediate hosts.

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    The document summarizes key characteristics and life cycles of trematodes of the genus Schistosoma, which are known as blood flukes. It lists three main species - S. japonicum, S. mansoni, and S. haematobium - and provides details on their habitat within the body, the eggs they produce, their intermediate hosts, and the pathologies they can cause in humans. It also includes a table comparing characteristics of several trematode species, including their common names, first and second intermediate hosts.

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    Trematodes Schistosoma Spp. General Characteristics

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    The document summarizes key characteristics and life cycles of trematodes of the genus Schistosoma, which are known as blood flukes. It lists three main species - S. japonicum, S. mansoni, and S. haematobium - and provides details on their habitat within the body, the eggs they produce, their intermediate hosts, and the pathologies they can cause in humans. It also includes a table comparing characteristics of several trematode species, including their common names, first and second intermediate hosts.

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    TREMATODES

    SCHISTOSOMA SPP.
    General Characteristics: 6. Infective stage: Fork-tail cercariae
    7. Non- operculated ova
    1. Known as Blood flukes
    8. Ova are mature when laid
    2. Round and cylindrical
    9. Larval sequence: Miracidum- Sporocyst- Sporocyst-
    3. Non- hermaphrodite (male and female are separated)
    Cercaria
    4. Only 1 intermediate host: Snail
    5. Mot: Skin penetration

    COMMON NAME HABITAT EGG INTERMEDIAT PATHOLOGY


    E HOST

    Superior Small with


    Schistosoma japonicum Oriental Blood mesenteric veins lateral spine Onchomelania  Katayama fever
    Fluke of the small quadrasi  Oriental
    intestine (1000-3000 Schistosomiasis
    eggs per day)

    Large with
    Inferior lateral spine
    Schistosoma mansoni mesenteric veins Biophalaria  Bilharziasis
    of the colon and (100,000- Australorbis
    rectum 300,000 eggs
    per day)

    Large with  Urinary


    Pelvic and vesical terminal spine schistosomiasis
    Schistosoma haematobium plexuses of the Bulinus  Egyptian
    urinary bladder (20-290 eggs Physopsis hematuria
    per day)
    TREMATODE COMMON NAME 1ST INTERMEDIATE HOST 2ND INTERMEDIATE HOST
    (Snail)
    Fasciola hepatica Sheep Liver Fluke Lymnea philippinensis Water plant vegetation
    Fasciola gigantica Giant Liver Fluke
    Clonorchis sinensis Chinese / Oriental Liver Fluke Bulimus fuchsiana Ctenopharyngodonictellus
    (fish)
    Opistorchis felineus Cat Liver Fluke Bulimus tentaculata Barbus barbus
    Tinca tinca (fish)
    Fasciolopsis buski Giant Intestinal Fluke Segmentina Water plant vegetation
    Echinostoma ilocanum Garrison’s Fluke Gyraulus convexciusculus Pila lunzonica (snail)
    Hippeutis umbilicalis
    Heterophyes heterophyes Von Siebold’s Fluke Pironella conica Fresh and brackish (salty)
    water fishes
    Paragonimus westermani Oriental Lung Fluke Brotia asperata Parathelpusa grapsoides
    Sundathelpusa philippina
    (crab)

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