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Clinical Pathology
Large animal endoparasites-swine
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Veterinary Medicine
Undergraduate 1
02/18/2008

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Ascaris suum

roundworm of swine 

*adults in small intestine-eggs are laid in small intestine-eggs pass in feces-larvae develop to infective 2nd stage in eggs-host ingests infective eggs-eggs hatch larvae follow tracheal migration and mature to adult stage. 

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Ascaris suum

(egg) swine roundworm 

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Trichuris suis

roundworm (whipworm) of swine

*adult nematodes live in cecum-eggs laid in cecum-eggs pass in feces-larvae develop to infective stage in eggs(in soil or vegetation)-host ingests infective eggs -eggs hatch, larvae mature to adult stage

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Trichuris suis

egg- whipworm(roundworm) of swine 

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Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus

egg- thorny headed worm of swine

-not prevelent in the u.s. 

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M. hirudinaceus

thorny headed worm of swine

*not prevelent in the u.s.

*live in small intestine- eggs laid in small intestine-eggs pass in feces-grub ingests eggs which hatch, larvae develop to infective stage within the grub-host ingests infected grub-larvae mature to adult stage 

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