Zoonosis
DISCUSSION
1- While on a romantic getaway with your significant other on the beautiful southern coast of Italy, you enjoy lots of local fish. After too much Chianti, you show off to your new Italian friends how to eat fish âsashimi styleâ (raw!). Within weeks you develop crippling explosive diarrhea which causes your significant other to question the entire relationship. What trematode infection is consistent with this scenario? What other pathology may be associated with this parasite.
2- Why do ants fear Dicrocoelium dendriticus?
3- Describe the process of egg production in trematodes
4- What is the difference between a âreservoir hostâ and a âparatenic hostâ? Define both terms and describe the role of each in the life-cycle of a trematode.
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Megalodiscus temperatus is an interesting parasite that exhibits alternative life cycle strategies. Describe those strategies. What might be some costs and benefits associated with each strategy??
6- Trematodes have an excretory system that can be especially well developed in some larval trematode stages. In these larval stages, this system also has an osmoregulatory function. Describe the excretory system of trematodes and list those larval stages in which you would expect that system to have a osmoregulatory function, then explain why?
7- You go to Minnesota for summer vacationâ¦why you would go there, I am not sureâ¦but you go, and after an early morning swim in a local lake, you begin to itch and develop small red spots all over your body. Tell me the what, the who and the how
8- Which group is considered the sister taxa of trematodes? what evidence suggests that relationship?
9- Describe the pathology of Paragonimus westermaniand how we can become infected with this parasite
Describe the pathology of Clonorchis sinensis and how we can become infected with this parasite
Describe the pathology of Fasciolopsis buski and how we can become infected with this parasite
