1. Journal 10/18
Explain why you should care about the invasive species of flatworm called bipalium? How would an invasion of this worm affect you personally?
Get out your “Plethora of Planaria” lab so we can take day 2 observations 

2. UNIT 3A- PHYLUM PLATYHELMINTHES
Parasitic Flukes & Tapeworms

3. CLASS TREMATODA Common name- flukes Endoparasitic- live inside host
Wide, flat with oval or elongate bodies
Have 2-3 hosts
Intermediate hosts- where asexual part of life cycle occurs
Definitive host- final host where sexual part of life cycle occurs
Almost all adult flukes are parasites of vertebrates (fish, frogs, turtles, livestock, and humans)
Internal anatomy is similar to Turbellarians (planarians).

4. CLASS TREMATODA EX: Liver Flukes
Types:
Chinese liver fluke- common parasite of humans that live in Asia.
Sheep liver fluke- common in sheep or people who raise sheep
Lives in the liver where it eats tissue & blood.
Contracted by
Eating uncooked contaminated food (sushi)
Eating water plants (water cress) infected with larvae

5. CLASS TREMATODA EX: Liver Fluke
Signs & Symptoms:
Enlarged liver
Feeling of fullness
Abdominal discomfort
Jaundice
Fatigue
Weakness
Nausea
Weight loss
Detection: look for eggs in stool or larvae in blood
Treatment: triclabendazole

6. Liver Fluke Life Cycle Eggs passed out w/feces
Eggs ingested by a snail- the first intermediate host.
Inside the snail, the eggs undergo asexual reproduction & metamorphosis
Miracidia- cilia for swimming
Sporocysts- asexual reprod.
Rediae- worm like stage
Cercariae- has tail for swimming
Free swimming cercariae burrow out of skin of snail and search out fish or plant- the second intermediate host.
Cercariae encyst in fish/plant and are called metacercariae which is then ingested by a human or other vertebrate.
Metacercariae excyst in the intestine and migrate to the liver where they live, feed & reproduce sexually.

7. CLASS TREMATODA EX: Blood Flukes
Common in Africa, Asia, S. America
Cause disease known as Schistosomiasis (A.K.A. bilharzia)
Symptoms:
Fever & chills
lymph node enlargement
liver and spleen enlargement
frequent urination, blood in urine and in stool
Invasion in skin may cause rash (swimmer’s itch)

8. Swimmer’s Itch Signs from Lake Michigan Area

9. CLASS CESTODA Common name: tapeworms Endoparasitic: live inside host
Long, flat ribbon-like bodies
White w/shades of yellow or gray
Size: 1mm to 15 m in length (up to 60 ft!)

10. CLASS CESTODA 6. Body Structure
Scolex- head-like structure; hooks & suckers for attachment (not feeding)
Neck- contains immature proglottids- series of repeating units of reproductive organs.
Strobila- rest of body; contains proglottids that are mature and gravid- full of eggs.

12. CLASS CESTODA 7. Digestion a. No mouth or digestive tract.
b. Absorb nutrients directly across their body wall.

13. CLASS CESTODA Signs/Symptoms:
Nausea & Weakness
Loss of appetite
Weight loss & diarrhea
Inadequate absorption of nutrients in food
Can lead to Cysticercosis disease in humans where larvae encyst in your muscle.
These cysts can end up in brain and cause death.
Detection: MRI or Xrays can detect cysts in muscle.
Treatment: Depends on infection & location of cysts. Albendazole and anti-inflammatory drugs help but surgical removal may be necessary.

14. California had the highest percentage of fatal cysticercosis from 1990-2002!
Frequency and percentage of fatal cysticercosis cases by state, United States, 1990–2002. Shaded areas indicate states with deaths from cysticercosis.
California – 57.3% deaths due to this disease.
Lots of patients were foreign-born or from Mexico.
Mortality rate higher in Latinos and men.

15. Life Cycle of a Tapeworm
Eggs or gravid proglottids are passed with feces into environment.
Cows, pigs, fish ingest eggs/gravid proglottids from vegetation in environment.
Oncospheres (larva) hatch in intestine, burrow thru intestinal wall, and enter circulatory system where they end up in muscle where they become a bladderworm inside a cyst.
Humans are infected by ingesting uncooked infected meat.
Bladderworm will hatch in stomach and migrate to intestine where they attach to intestinal wall with hooks and suckers and begin absorbing nutrients.
Adults sexually reproduce in final vertebrate host (human)

16. Life Cycle of Tapeworm in Dog
Tapeworm inside fleas
Dog chews when flea bites and ingests fleas
Dog may also eat feces infected with tapeworm eggs/proglottids
Tapeworm Lifecycle Movie - YouTube

17. Environmental/Economic Significance of Parasitic Flatworms
Cause disease in vertebrates in many countries
Must study the worms to figure out how to treat infected people.