PARASITOLOGY PRACTICAL - TREMATODES AND CESTODES
LEARNING OUTCOMES
In the practical spot examination you will be given one or more examples of a fluke or tapeworm parasite and asked to identify it and comment on its life cycle, zoonotic importance, etc . You will be given some clinical history of use in identification and the specimen will be in a flask, on a microscope slide set up for viewing, or a photograph.
Important types of flukes and tapeworms and their cysts to know are as follows:
Liver flukes, Fasciola hepatica and Dicrocoelium dendriticum, egg of Fasciola, a typical larval stage and the adults,
Examples of parasitic damage such as as fluke infected liver and a lung with Echinococcus cysts,
Taenia tapeworm eggs,
Types of larval tapeworms, the cysts such as cysticercus of Taenia saginata, coenurus of Taenia multiceps, hydatid of Echinococcus,
Adult tapeworms of different sizes and shapes such as Dipylidium caninum, Echinococcus granulosus, Anoplocephala, Taneia pisiformis.
Note that you will only be expected to give full species names where these have been provided in your practical class handouts. It is useful to know the vernacular names of these parasites when available.