ADSC 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dog Flea, Vietnamese Pot-Bellied, Cestoda
29 Aug 2016
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Passed from mothers: can get when drink milk, very important to deworm females before breeding. Goes from blood stream to lungs- cough up, and then reswallow worms which then go back to the small intestine. Male dogs won"t show later on as gets older. Facts: 4-8 inches in length, live in small intestines, found in dogs and cats. Older dogs develop resistance females can transmit to fetus. Symptoms: can be vomited up or seen in feces, tissue problems, pot-bellied appearance, can be a problem with children. Symptoms same as dogs: may not occur in cats. Has large mouth that attaches to small intestine and digests plug of tissue: gets name from hooklike mouth. Facts: 1 inch long, affects young and mature animals mothers can pass through milk (not cats, dogs/cats pick up through skin or ingestion. Worms can burrow in the skin, so humans can get these too: treat early.
