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The document discusses and provides images of different intestinal tapeworm eggs and segments. It describes the eggs of Dipylidium caninum as being contained in packets of 8-15 eggs within host feces. Each egg contains an oncosphere with 6 hooklets. Images show the scolex, immature and mature segments, eggs, and proglottid of D. caninum. Eggs and segments of Diphyllobothrium latum and Hymenolepsis nana are also pictured and their characteristics described.

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Para Lab 8

The document discusses and provides images of different intestinal tapeworm eggs and segments. It describes the eggs of Dipylidium caninum as being contained in packets of 8-15 eggs within host feces. Each egg contains an oncosphere with 6 hooklets. Images show the scolex, immature and mature segments, eggs, and proglottid of D. caninum. Eggs and segments of Diphyllobothrium latum and Hymenolepsis nana are also pictured and their characteristics described.

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PARASITOLOGY LABORATORY 8 – Intestinal Cestodes Egg packets in fecal smears. The typical egg packet of D. caninum.

USTMED ’07 Sec C – AsM; Photos provided by JV.N. These packets usually contain 8-15 eggs, each of which contains
an oncosphere. The oncospheres, each with their 6 hooklets.

Dipylidium caninum – ova


DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM

Diphyllobothrium latum Ova

Dipylidium caninum scolex


The eggs of this tapeworm are discharged from the proglottids and
pass out in feces in an unembryonated condition. The egg is ovoid
and moderately large.

Diphyllobothrium latum – ova

The scolex of this carmine-stained, adult cestode has four large


suckers and a conical rostellum bearing many rows of small spiens.

Diphyllobothrium latum ripe segment Dipylidium caninum – scolex

Dipylidium caninum Immature segment

Diphyllobothrium mansoni Ripe segment

Dipylidium caninum – Mature and Ripe

DIPYLIDIUM CANINUM

Dipylidium caninum proglottid


Dipylidium canincum Ova
This gravid, carmine-stained
proglottid illustrates the
compartmentalized nature of
the uterus and the two,
laterally placed, genital pores
so characteristic of the
species.

Dipylidium caninum composite


filament.

Hymenolepsis diminuta ova

Hymenolepsis diminuta – gravid segment composite

HYMENOLEPSIS NANA
Raillietina garrisoni segment (?)
Hymenolepsis nana ova

The clear, thin shelled eggs of H. nana are spherical to ovoid in


shape, and contain a six-hooked embryo (oncosphere) when
passed in feces. Its prominent characteristics is the filament that
arise from polar thickening of the inner envelope surrounding the
oncosphere.

Hymenolepsis nana Ripe segment [email protected]


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Hymenolepsis nana – mature segment

Hymenolepsis nana – Entire worm (adult)

HYMENOLEPSIS DIMINUTA

Hymenolepsis diminuta ova

The H. diminuta egg is spherical and clearly differentiated from


that of H. nana. It is larger, has a thicker shell, is bile-stained, and
the inner envelope surrounding the oncosphere lacks polar

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