Cestodes

Stage in
Mode of
Illustrate Humans Diagnosis/
Parasite Biology/ Intermediat Infectiv Transmissio Sites Signs and Pathogenesi
the Associated Diagnostic Treatment
Characteristics e Host e Stage n Affected Symptoms s
Cestode with Stage
Disease
Sparganosi Sparganum - Intermediat Egg (1) Drinking larval forms Subcutaneo Subcutaneo Diagnosis: No Humans
s flattened anterior e host: water (procercoid us tissue, us tissues: recovery of approved ingest larvae
Spirometra end; ribbon-like copepod contaminat / breast, painless a treatment of
sp. body varies in ed with plerocercoi orbit, sparganum for Spirometra
thickness and Second infected d) urinary Brain or from infections spp. Then,
shows intermediat copepods tract, pleural spine: infected in dogs andthe
pseudosegmentati e hosts: (2) cavity, lungs, variety of tissue. cats. spargana
on fish, consuming abdominal neurological migrate to
reptiles and the flesh of viscera and symptoms ELISA - Praziquant the
Higher amphibians an under- the central (weakness, target anti- el has been subcutaneo
magnification cooked nervous headache, sparganum used us tissues,
showing loose Paratenic or second system seizure, and IgG however, a where they
stroma with fluid- second intermediat abnormal antibodies higher- become
filled spaces, intermediat e or skin within the than- encapsulate
calcareous e host: paratenic sensations, blood labeled d in
corpuscles, Human host (3) such as dose (25 inflammator
mesenchymal using those numbness or Diagnostic mg/kg y nodules
fibers, and meats as a tingling) Stage: orally) and that can
longitudinal poultice (a plerocercoi extended develop into
bundles of smooth traditional Inner ear: d larva or duration of abscesses
muscle self- vertigo or sparganum treatment (which can
treatment deafness. (2 be
according to consecutive anywhere in
ritual belief) Tissue: days) is the body
that is proliferative usually due to its
applied lesions with required to ability to
directly to multiple eliminate migrate to
ulcers, plerocercoid the any tissue)
sores, or s present in infection. The
inflamed a single site. sparganum
eyes remains
viable inside
the nodule,
thus the
subcutaneo
us masses
may
migrate. The
parasite can
live for up to
30 years
inside their
host, and
their length
can vary
from a few
millimeters
to a few
centimeters.