Parasitology Exam

Flukes and Tapeworms

I.  Identify (40 points)

1.  liver, Cionella lubrica, Formica fusca

2.  Moscow, monoxenous

3.  furcocercous, broad distribution

4.  cysticercoid, Tribolium

5.  small intestine, frog legs, paratenic host

6.  gravlox, pinnepeds

7.  Oncomelania, Leiper

8.   mostly African, motor impairment, armed

9.  water chestnuts, small intestine

10.  strobilocercous, rodents

11.  Redi, deBrie, vegetation

12.  animated proglottids, unarmed

13.  dingo, equatorial genital pore

14.  Joshua's curse on Jericho

15.  acraspedote, armed

16.  crabs, taxonomic splitters, boars as paratenic hosts

17.  terminal spine on ova, stool

18.  foxes, Siberia

19.  pigmented skin, amphibians, rectum

20.  Kuchenmeister, Mexico, tri-lobed ovary

II.  Describe the epidemiological factors associated with: (15 points)

1.  Schistosoma mansoni

2.  Clonorchis sinensis

3.  Dibothriocephalus latus

IV.  Detail the pathology associated with Taenia solium.  Explain all the reasons why it is so much more dangerous than its close cousin, Taenia saginata.  (10 points)

V.  Identify the organism designated by the number on the country or range on the world map seen below.  Name the country or a prominent country in the range and provide one epidemiological factor which facilitates the spread of this organism.  (The organisms are not limited to only the country or range depicted on this map).  (30 points)