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Blood Fluke-
parasites
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Health Care
Undergraduate 3
02/09/2014

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Term

Pulmonary Fluke

Paragoniumus westermani

Definition

Oriental lung fluke

Definitive hosts- humans and mammals

2nd intermediate host- fresh water crabs

Term
Paragonimus Life Cycle
Definition
  • Metacercariae in crab ingested by humans
  • Go to intestine and eventually to lungs
  • Adult live in lungs
  • Ova in sputum
Term
P. westermani
Definition
Symptoms
blood stained sputum
pleaural pain 
fever
Term

S. mansoni

S. japonicum

S. hematobium

 

Definition
Blood Flukes
Term
S. mansoni ova
Definition

ova~150 u long

Lateral spine

 

Term
Schistosoma japonicum
Definition

~100u diamter

rudimentary spine

Term
Schistosoma hematobium ova
Definition

ova ~150 u long

Terminal spine

Term
Cercariae
Definition
Infectious stage for Schistosoma
Term
Embyonated ova
Definition
infectious stage for Trichuris trichiura
Term
Cysticercus larvae
Definition
Infectious stage for Taenia solium
Term
Filariform larvae
Definition
infectious stage for Strongyloides stercoralis
Term
Cysticercoid larvae
Definition
infectious stage for Hymenlepolis diminuta
Term
Metacercariae
Definition
infectious stage for Fasciola hepatica
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