BIO SCI 94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Clonorchis Sinensis, Taenia Solium, Amoebiasis

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIO SCI 94
• Professor: Michael Clegg

Document Summary

Dracunculus medenensis --guinea worm early embryo in egg adult t apeworm in intestine of bea r life history of the broad fish tapeworm , diphyllobothrium latum. The adult of this species occurs in a variety of fish-eati n g mammal s. including humans. Pikes and other carnivorous freshwater fi s hes are intermed iate hosts. Microsco pic stages from early embryo in egg 10 procercoid are shown. In circle~. (m odified after vol rious so urces) Diphy lloho thrium lalulil r=ui/j()thri() ("cphalus lalu. i). s howing the her maphroditic reproductive system . ( o mnint:d from va ri o us s (llll"(":c ~ j. Re moval of tapeworm from a child is not a big eve nt in so me parts of the world . (l. braithwaite) Figure 4: example of the black-fly (simulium ). Actu a l size: 4 millimeters ( ~) . Life-cyc le o f the chinese liver fluke l ("lljllflrcltis). (based on faust ,