Fasciolopsis buski Flukes

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Fasciolopsis buski Flukes
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intro

• I am doing a study on fasciolopsis buski it is a
  fluke that lives in human and pig intestines

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Fasciolopsis buski

• They are the most common species that infect
  humans.
• they are small tan cylender shaped organism
• http//www.emedicine.com/med/topic1177.htmtarget1

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http//www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/parasite/labeled
_fasciolopsis.html
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Classification

• Parasite
• Kindom anamelia
• PhylumPlatyhelminthes (Flat worms)
• Class trematoda (the Flukes)
• Order Echinostomatida
• Family Fasciolidae
• Genus Fasciolopsis
• species buski
• http//www.stanford.edu/class/humbio103/ParaSites2
  004/Fasciolopsiasis/intro.htm

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Fasciolopsis buski life cycle

• The eggs go through the hosts feces
• Then a free swimming miracidium
• The miracidium infects first host to come along
• The miracidium reproduces aseually in organism
  and creates cercariae
• The cercariae leaves host and live in a
  vegetation habitat then producing metacercariae
• The metacercaria is indigested by the host and
  lives in the small intestine then the adult
  matures in the small intestine and reproduces
• http//www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/parasite/lifecyc
  les/fasciolopsis_lifecycle.html

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Hosts

• They live in human and pig intestines.
• They can grow up to 80mm inside the host.
• http//www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/parasite/fasciol
  opsis.html

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Getting in

• The parasite gets into the host when they eat
  vegitation contaminated with metacercariae
• http//www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/parasite/metacer
  caria.html

http//www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/parasite/metacer
caria.html
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Symtoms and treatment

• nausea
• diarrhea
• anemia
• intestinal obstruction
• malabsorption
• edema
• eosinophilia
• http//www.hsc.wvu.edu/som/micro/317PRINT/lecture4
  /tsld011.htm

• Praziquantel
• Niclosamide
• These both sound like medications
• http//www.hsc.wvu.edu/som.micro/317print/lecture4
  /tsld011.htm

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diagnosis

• They look at the eggs in the feces
• http//bio.winona.msus.edu/bates/Parasitology/Fasc
  iolopsis20buski.htm

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location of buski

• The flukes are In the regions of China, Taiwan,
  South-East Asia, Malaysia and India
• http//www.cdfound.to.it/HTML/fas2.htm

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Statistics

• Number of people infected in the world 210,000
• Number of people killed a year unknown few
• http//www.ksu.edu/parasitology/classes/545intro.h
  tml

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Conclution

• The fasciolopsis buski friend or foe this is a
  question that has been debated since the dawn of
  time but ill let you decide for yourself
• the end