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الديدان العملي لاب 1,2,3
الديدان العملي لاب 1,2,3
الديدان العملي لاب 1,2,3
Lab Course
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Understand medically important helminthes including
their life cycles, modes of transmissions, clinical features,
diagnosis, and prevention.
INTRODUCTION
Medical helminthology is the
study of parasitic worms
Faciola
hepatica
• Class: Trematoda
• Class: Cestoidea
Class: Trematoda
صنف المخرمات
Order: Digenea
General Characteristic
Presence in the host: The adults live in the Bile ducts of sheep, goats,
caws, and sometimes could infect human
Fasciola hepatica ملم30 يصل طولها الى
Fasciola hepatica life cycle
Fasciola hepatica
Unembryonated ova
Fasciola hepatica
miracedium
Cross Section in Snail Tissue showing
Sporocyst of Fasciola hepatica
Fasciola hepatica
Mother Redia
Fasciola hepatic
Daughter Redia
Fasciola hepatica
cercaria
Clonorchis sinensis
Scientific name: Clonorchis sinensis
Common name: Chinese or Oriental Liver Fluke
Disease: Clonorchiasis
Infective stage: Metacercaria
Testes
testes
ovary
V.gland
Uterus
Dicrocoelium dendriticum life cycle
Helminthology
Intestinal flukes
Fasciolopsis buski
Common name/ location: Giant intestinal fluke/
human small intestine, found in pigs as well
Length: 25-75 mm
Disease: Fasiciolopsiasis
Ventral sucker
cecum
Uterus
ovary
Vitelline gland
Testes
Fasciola hepatica up to 30 mm Fasciolopsis buski 25-75 mm
Fasciolopsis buski life cycle
Heterophyes heterophyes
Common name/ location : Small intestine fluke/ live
in small intestine between the villi of human/ other
mammals that eating fish
Disease: Heterophyiasis
Length: 5-13 mm
Disease: Amphistomiasis
Ventral sucker
uterus
Ovary
Mehlis’ gland
V.Gland
testes
Echinostoma revolutum life cycle
Lung flukes
Paragonimus westermani
Common name/ Location: Oriental lung fluke , found in
lungs of human
Length: 7.5 – 12 mm
Oral sucker
Cecum
Ventral sucker
Uterus
Ootype
Ovary
Yolk gland
Testes
Paragonimus westermani Life cycle
Class: Trematoda
Blood Flukes
Schistosomiasis
)المثقوبات الدموية (المنشقات
the first described the adult Schistosoma worm
in Egypt
Blood flukes
• S. haematobium - Africa and middle east
Female Male
The body has a groove along match of its length
and, it was this groove that inspired the name
Schistosoma or split body
S. mansoni Biomphalaria
S. japonicum
Oncomelania
Blood flukes eggs (ova)