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Exercise 9 PARA LAB
Exercise 9 PARA LAB
Exercise 9 PARA LAB
PARASITOLGY LABORATORY
EXERCISE 9
OBSERVATIONS
4. What external structure differentiates the adult Echinostoma from the other
flukes? 5 pts
Ans: Adult Echinostoma worms are reddish gray and they measure about less
than 2 cm long. They have oral sucker on anterior end surrounded by crown
of spines. And ventral sucker is present at anterior fifth of body.
Heterophyids
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Host becomes infected
Cercariae penetrate the by ingesting undercooked
skin of fresh/brackish a 4 fish containing
water fish and encyst as
metacercariae in the
metacercariae 6
tissue of the fish Metacercariae excyst
in the small intestine
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Cercariae released
3 from snail
Fish-eating mammals
and birds can be
infected as well
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Snail host ingests eggs.
miracidia emerge from Adult in small intestine
eggs and penetrate the
snail's intestine.
= Infective stage
Embryonated eggs each with
= Diagnostic stage 1 a fully-developed miracidium
are passed in feces.
Miracidia hatch
3 from eggs, seek out
snail intermediate host.
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Eggs become Adult fluke in hepatic
= Infective stage
2 embryonated in
water.
biliary ducts
Unembroynated eggs
are passed in feces.
= Diagnostic stage 1
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Free-swimming Cercariae
cercariae released penetrate
from snail into water
4Sporocysts develop skin
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in snail (successive
Cercariae lose tails during
generations) penetration and become
schistosomulae
3 Circulation 8
Miracidia penetrate
snail tissue Migration to portal blood
in liver and maturation
1 into adults
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2 Eggs shed from
infected human
Eggs hatch and
release miracidia
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Paired adult wormt
S. iaponirum
S. mansoni S. haematobium
= Infective stage
= Diagnostic stage
Metacercariae in flesh
4 or skin of fresh water
fish are ingested by
the definitive host.
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Free-swimming cercariae
Excyst in
3 encyst in the skin or flesh
duodenum
of freshwater fish.
Eggs ingested by
2 the snail
intermediate host.
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