Spirometra erinaceieuropaei
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Spirometra erinaceieuropaei is a representative of the tapeworm , which is mainly found in the Mediterranean and East Asia. It is up to 75 cm long and 8 mm wide. The Scolex is spoon-shaped to finger-shaped. The sexually mature tapeworm limbs are elongated with simple genital pores on the underside. The uterus has five rosette-like coils and is located in the center of the tapeworm limb. Its opening is behind the genital pore.
S. erinaceieuropaei parasitizes in the small intestine of predators . Copepods , in which the procercoid forms, serve as the first intermediate host . Frogs, birds and snakes act as second intermediate hosts. The plerozerkoid is formed in them. Transport hosts such as humans, pigs and hedgehogs can be inserted between the chain of infection to the ultimate host, in which the infectious second larval stage settles as a so-called sparganum in the muscles ( sparganosis ) or the brain. The tapeworm is therefore one of the zoonotic pathogens .
literature
- Regine Ribbek and Steffen Rehbein: Helminth pants . In: Marian C. Horzinek et al. (Ed.): Diseases of the cat . Enke-Verlag, 4th edition 2005, pp. 207-226, ISBN 3-8304-1049-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ The genome of the sparganosis tapeworm Spirometra erinaceieuopaei isolated from the biopsy of a migrating brain lesion . Retrieved November 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Tapeworm in the brain - film report . Retrieved January 6, 2015 .