Common DEFINITIVE INTERMEDIAT INFECTIVE
PARASITE ADULT SCOLEX PROGLOTTIDS EGG MOT
Name HOST E HOST STAGE
- Small and - Narrow and Dog flea
globular have double set (Ctenophalide
Dog with 4 of reproductive s canis)
Tapeworm; suckers; organs; with 2 “MOTHER
Double- genital pores PACKET” Cat flea
pored - Club- (bilateral) 8-15 eggs or (Ctenophalide Ingestion
10-70 cm
Dipylidium Tapeworm; shaped 5-30 eggs; s felix) Cysticercoid of
(pale DOGS
caninum Pumpkin armed Gravid spherical, larva infective
reddish)
seed rostellum Proglottid: thin shelled Human flea flea
Tapeworm; with 1-7 “melon-shaped, and 6 hooked (Pulex irritans)
Cucumber circlets of pumpkin seed- onchosphere
Tapeworm spine shape or shaped Dog louse
like rice (Trichodectes
granules” canis)
- Quadrate
- Pyriform Like Taenia
with 4 cup- (round Sheep; cattle;
Ingestion
like suckers striated egg goats; horses; Hydatid Cyst
of eggs by
Hydatid Shortest -armed with camels
Dogs or contact
Echinococcus Worm; Tapewor rostellum hexacanth Protoscolices
Wild with
granulosus Dog m (30-36 embryo) Man – - infective
Canine contamin
Tapeworm 3-6 mm hooks) with accidental stage for
ated dog
3 segments May grow as intermediate dogs
feces
(immature, big as 20 cm host
mature, id diameter
gravid/ripe)
Echinococcus Hydatid Taenia-like Field Mouse Eating
multicularis worm; Vole raw fruits
Alveolar Hydatid Cyst Squirel and
hydatid - called Shrew vegetable
disease alveolar cyst contamin
- w/ minute ated with
cavities feces of
containing the foxes
crumpled or and other
, discolored
hyaline
membrane,
- enclosed in canines
avascular
fibrous
adventitia
Mature segment
Subglobular, - containes a
has 4 cup- bilobed ovary
like suckers and 36-50 ovoid
Spindle-
surrounded testes
shaped
by very
minute - Gravid segment
Oncosphere
comma- -about 2 mm in
with 6
shaped length
hooklets is
spines containing 200-
surrounded
400 egg capsules
by thin
Rostellum is with 1 to 4 eggs
Old name: membranes
armed with
Raillientina Raillientina
60 cm 2 circular The segments
garrisoni madagasca - an outer
rows of are motile, white
riensis elongated
alternating and appear like
oval
hammer- rice grains when
membrane
shaped passed in feces
- an inner
books (90-
spherical
140) and
membrane
surrounded
enclosing the
by severela
oncosphere
rows of
comma-
shaped
spines
Diphyllobotriu Fish/Broad Largest -Spatulate -Square-shaped Yellowish First IH : PLEOCERCCO Ingestion
m latum Tapeworm tapeworm -Almond- -Uterus is highly Brown Various ID LARVA of fish
3-10 m spahed coiled (coiled Crustaceans with
PARASITE ADULT SCOLEX PROGLOTTIDS EGG MOT
Name HOST E HOST STAGE
- Small and - Narrow and Dog flea
globular have double set (Ctenophalide
Dog with 4 of reproductive s canis)
Tapeworm; suckers; organs; with 2 “MOTHER
Double- genital pores PACKET” Cat flea
pored - Club- (bilateral) 8-15 eggs or (Ctenophalide Ingestion
10-70 cm
Dipylidium Tapeworm; shaped 5-30 eggs; s felix) Cysticercoid of
(pale DOGS
caninum Pumpkin armed Gravid spherical, larva infective
reddish)
seed rostellum Proglottid: thin shelled Human flea flea
Tapeworm; with 1-7 “melon-shaped, and 6 hooked (Pulex irritans)
Cucumber circlets of pumpkin seed- onchosphere
Tapeworm spine shape or shaped Dog louse
like rice (Trichodectes
granules” canis)
- Quadrate
- Pyriform Like Taenia
with 4 cup- (round Sheep; cattle;
Ingestion
like suckers striated egg goats; horses; Hydatid Cyst
of eggs by
Hydatid Shortest -armed with camels
Dogs or contact
Echinococcus Worm; Tapewor rostellum hexacanth Protoscolices
Wild with
granulosus Dog m (30-36 embryo) Man – - infective
Canine contamin
Tapeworm 3-6 mm hooks) with accidental stage for
ated dog
3 segments May grow as intermediate dogs
feces
(immature, big as 20 cm host
mature, id diameter
gravid/ripe)
Echinococcus Hydatid Taenia-like Field Mouse Eating
multicularis worm; Vole raw fruits
Alveolar Hydatid Cyst Squirel and
hydatid - called Shrew vegetable
disease alveolar cyst contamin
- w/ minute ated with
cavities feces of
containing the foxes
crumpled or and other
, discolored
hyaline
membrane,
- enclosed in canines
avascular
fibrous
adventitia
Mature segment
Subglobular, - containes a
has 4 cup- bilobed ovary
like suckers and 36-50 ovoid
Spindle-
surrounded testes
shaped
by very
minute - Gravid segment
Oncosphere
comma- -about 2 mm in
with 6
shaped length
hooklets is
spines containing 200-
surrounded
400 egg capsules
by thin
Rostellum is with 1 to 4 eggs
Old name: membranes
armed with
Raillientina Raillientina
60 cm 2 circular The segments
garrisoni madagasca - an outer
rows of are motile, white
riensis elongated
alternating and appear like
oval
hammer- rice grains when
membrane
shaped passed in feces
- an inner
books (90-
spherical
140) and
membrane
surrounded
enclosing the
by severela
oncosphere
rows of
comma-
shaped
spines
Diphyllobotriu Fish/Broad Largest -Spatulate -Square-shaped Yellowish First IH : PLEOCERCCO Ingestion
m latum Tapeworm tapeworm -Almond- -Uterus is highly Brown Various ID LARVA of fish
3-10 m spahed coiled (coiled Crustaceans with
