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Cestodes Morph
Cestodes Morph
STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS
• Have the basic animal cell structure
• Have complex cellular organization
• Made up of Cluster or Colony of cells that function together
• Hermaphrodites
• Sexual multiplication involves fusion of gametes
Cestode (Tape Worms)
• Scolex - Head
• Rostellum
• Acetabula
• Strobila
• Cysticercus cellulosa
• Hyadatid cyst
• Onchosphore
• Bladderworm
Taenia saginata
• Is a Cyclophyllidean Cestode
• Beef tapeworm (the most commonest tapeworm)
• The adult worm is very long, could be up to 10m
• But is usually five meters (5m) and has 1000-2000 proglottid
• Man is the only definitive host
• Cattle are the significant intermediate hosts
Epidemiology and Distribution
• Cyclophyllidean Cestode
• Pork tapeworm
• Adult is located in the mucosa of the ileum (small intestine
• Pig is the significant intermediate host
• Have a unique significant infection (Cysticercosis)
• That is, humans may swallow the ova which then develop to
the laval Cysticercus known as Cysticercus Cellulosae
• This develops to the infection human Cysticercosis
Epidemiology and Distribution
• It is worldwide in distribution
• Occur commonly in warm climates where sanitation is poor
• Children are more commonly infected than adults
• Especially children from institutions in tropical countries
• Human infection is by eating raw or semi-cooked meat
• Rats and mice infection is as a result of human feces reaching
the rats and mice
Morphology
• Cyclophyllidean Cestode
• Extraintestinal cestode
• Is a Tapeworm usually found in Dogs.
• Presence of a Scolex and 3 Proglottids (small)
• Causes Echinococcosis (Hydatid disease)
Distribution
• Coracidium
• Sparganum larva
• Coenurus
• Procercoid
• Plerocercoid
Diphyllibothrium latum
• Pseudophyllidean Cestode
• Commonly known as the Broad Fish Tapeworm
• Longest of all tapeworms and is about 3-10m
• Has a life span of 25yrs
• Located in the duodenum and the ileum of the GIT
• Suctorial grooves (Bothria) are used for attachment to the
mucosa of the ileum
Distribution
• Worldwide in distribution
• Common in areas where raw fish dishes or diets are taken
• Europe, Asia, N/S America and some parts of Africa
• Also areas where fish is eaten raw or undercooked
• Worm burden depends on number of Plerocercoid
swallowed
Morphology - Adult
Hymenolepis Diminuta
• Cyclophyllidean Cestode
• This is the rat tapeworm
• It is worldwide in distribution and common among rats,
mice, and wild rodents
• Infection found in Europe, Asia, and Africa
• Ovum has no polar filaments.
• Transmission by rat flea (intermediate host)
Echinococcus multilocularis
• Cyclophyllidean Cestode
• a tapeworm that commonly infects dogs and cats.
• Occasionally affects humans (especially children)
• Intermediate host: larva of dog fleas
• The length of tapeworm is 10 – 70 cm
• Name of disease: Dipylidiasis
Dipylidium caninum
• Distribution:
- USA and Argentina
- China and Philippines
- Rhodesia
• The first cases of D. caninum in humans were discovered in
1903
Dipylidium caninum