RAILLIETINA

GARRISONI

Prepared By:
MELODY JANE PARDILLO BMLS 2C
 Railletina
 The genus parasite was named in 1920 in honour of a
 French Veterinarian and  helminthologist,
  LOUIS JOSEPH ALCIDE RAILLIET.
 This was first reported by Garrison to be presented in
adult filipino in 1911.
 Raillietina garrisoni
(RAT TAPEWORM)

 Rice grains
 Associated with insect arthropods
 Ingested by intermediate host
 Railletina garrisoni
 Madagascar worm
 Armed rostellum
 Belongs to the family Davaineidae
 common tapeworm of rats.
 Usually in children (3yrs old)
 MORPHOLOGY
 (adult)
- 60 cm with four acetabula
 (scolex)

- 2 alternating circular rows

- 90 to 140 Hammer-shaped hooks with armed
rostellum
 (Proglottids)

- white in color
- (Masture segments) bilobed ovary surround with with 36-50 ovoid
testes
- (gravid segments) 200-400 egg capsules with 1-4 spindle-shaped eggs
- gravid segments may be ingested by the insect
 ADULT SCOLEX
PROGLOTTIDS
 Adult (in small intestine)
 Intermediate Host: Insects
 Definitive Hosts: Rats & Human

 Egg
 -spindle shaped
 Infective Host: flour beetle (Tribolium
confusum)
 Definitive Host: humans
 Infective Stage: Accidental ingestion of
arthropod insects containing the
cysticerci
 Diagnostic Stage: Proglottids or Ova in
stools
LIFE CYCLE
 PATHOGENESIS & CLINICAL MANIFESTATION

 Asymptomatic
 children brought for medical consultation
when proglottids passed out with their feces
 BIOGEOGRAPHY
 occurs across Sub-
Saharan Africa and
 in Cuba.
PREVENTION AND CONTROL
 -Destruction of rodents from households,
proper storage of grain products
 Protection of food from being contaminated w/
flour beetles
 DIAGNOSIS
 Stool examination (based on the recovery of
the gravid segment)
 TREATMENT
 -Praziquantel
 -Niclosamide
 NOTE: worms may be
expelled
spontaneously
JOURNALS
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