Raillietina Garrisoni: Prepared By: Melody Jane Pardillo Bmls 2C
Raillietina Garrisoni: Prepared By: Melody Jane Pardillo Bmls 2C
GARRISONI
Prepared By:
MELODY JANE PARDILLO BMLS 2C
Railletina
The genus parasite was named in 1920 in honour of a
French Veterinarian and helminthologist,
LOUIS JOSEPH ALCIDE RAILLIET.
This was first reported by Garrison to be presented in
adult filipino in 1911.
Raillietina garrisoni
(RAT TAPEWORM)
Rice grains
Associated with insect arthropods
Ingested by intermediate host
Railletina garrisoni
Madagascar worm
Armed rostellum
Belongs to the family Davaineidae
common tapeworm of rats.
Usually in children (3yrs old)
MORPHOLOGY
(adult)
- 60 cm with four acetabula
(scolex)
- white in color
- (Masture segments) bilobed ovary surround with with 36-50 ovoid
testes
- (gravid segments) 200-400 egg capsules with 1-4 spindle-shaped eggs
- gravid segments may be ingested by the insect
ADULT SCOLEX
PROGLOTTIDS
Adult (in small intestine)
Intermediate Host: Insects
Definitive Hosts: Rats & Human
Egg
-spindle shaped
Infective Host: flour beetle (Tribolium
confusum)
Definitive Host: humans
Infective Stage: Accidental ingestion of
arthropod insects containing the
cysticerci
Diagnostic Stage: Proglottids or Ova in
stools
LIFE CYCLE
PATHOGENESIS & CLINICAL MANIFESTATION
Asymptomatic
children brought for medical consultation
when proglottids passed out with their feces
BIOGEOGRAPHY
occurs across Sub-
Saharan Africa and
in Cuba.
PREVENTION AND CONTROL
-Destruction of rodents from households,
proper storage of grain products
Protection of food from being contaminated w/
flour beetles
DIAGNOSIS
Stool examination (based on the recovery of
the gravid segment)
TREATMENT
-Praziquantel
-Niclosamide
NOTE: worms may be
expelled
spontaneously
JOURNALS
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