Acanthocephalosis

Pomphorhynchus spec. in the rectum of a Bonito ( Pomatomus saltatrix )

As Acanthocephalosen infectious diseases are referred to in various animals including humans, by acanthocephala be triggered (Acanthocephala). These are intestinal parasites that dig into the intestinal wall of their hosts with the help of a hooked trunk and absorb the food from the intestinal contents through the skin.

Well-known acanthocephaloses are for example

• the pig's Macracanthorhynchose , triggered by the giant scraper ( Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus )
• the acanthocephaloses of fish , which occur through a number of different types of scratches in different marine and limnic species.
• the Acanthocephalose poultry and Polymorphidose poultry .

literature

• Theodor Hiepe, Renate Buchwalder, Siegfried Nickel: Textbook of Parasitology. Volume 3: Veterinary Helminthology. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1985.
• Michel Rommel, Johannes Eckert, Erich Kutzer, Wolfgang Körting, Thomas Schnieder: Veterinary Parasitology. 5th edition, Parey Buchverlag, Berlin 2000.