Name: Mary Mae Dequiña

Year & Section: 1-B

ASSIGNMENT: SUMMARY OF CESTODES

Cestode Larval Stage Intermediate Mode of Laboratory Disease Treatment Prevention &
Host Transmission Diagnosis Control
(Method/
Tehniques to
Recover the
Parasite)
Taenia saginata Cysticercus Cattle Ingestion of Stool can be Taeniasis Drug of Adequate
(larva) improperly examined but eggs choice: cooking of
cooked or are irregularly Praziquantel beef
raw beef passed out in
containing stool
the
infective
larva
(cysticercus)
Taenia solium Larva Pigs Ingestion of Microscopic Taeniasis and Drug of Cooking of
(Cysticercus improperly examination of Cysticercosis choice: pork flesh to
cellulosae) cooked or stool specimen Praziquantel the
raw pork from infected for intestinal appropriate
meat which persons infection and degree
contains the cysticercosis
infective
larva

Diphyllobothriu Plerocercoi 2nd IH Ingestion of Demonstration of Diphyllobothriasis Drug of Prior to

m latum d larva improperly characteristic / choice: ingestion, fish
cooked or operculated eggs or Bothriocephalus Praziquantel that has been
raw fish proglottids in the anemia thoroughly
containing stool (DFS) Alternative: cooked.
 the Niclosamide
plerocercoid
(infective
stage)
Hymenolepis Eggs May or may not ingestion of finding of the Hymenolepiasis Drug of Proper
nana Cysticeroid require IH fecally- characteristic eggs Choice: hygiene
contaminate in stool specimen Praziquantel
d food or
water
Alternative
Drug:
Niclosamide
Hymenolepis Cysticercoid Insects Egg Identification of Hymenolepiasis Praziquantel Getting rid of
diminuta consumption eggs in stool – 25 mg/kg the insect
through the single dose hosts that
mouth. serve as
intermediate
s
Dipylidium Canids and • Cat flea Swallowing of Detection of the Dipylidiasis Praziquantel Pets,
caninum felids (Ctenocephalide fleas or their characteristic gravid • 5 – 10 including
s felis) eggs proglottids passed mg/kg single dogs and
• Human flea out singly or in dose cats, are
(Pulex irritans) chain dusted with
• Dog louse an
(Trichodectes insecticide.
canis)
Echinococcus Hydatid cyst Sheeps Ingestion of Analysis of a sample Cyst Treatment of Avoid close
granulosus eggs from taken from a biopsy choice: encounters
food and Removal of with dogs.
water the cyst
contaminate
d by dog Drugs:
feces Mebendazol
e
Albendazole
Praziquantel