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Parasite 1 Test Kit
31 vials
The energy patterns of tapeworms, pinworms, roundworms and liver flukes.
Parasite: “any organism living in or on any other living creature and deriving advantage from doing so, while
causing disadvantage to the host” - BMA Complete Family Health Encyclopaedia
Parasites are commonly acquired by eating contaminated meat, swallowing eggs on food, contaminating
fingers with faecal material or through contact with infected water.
Parasites are divided into the following categories:
1. flatworms (also called platyhelminths)
a) tapeworms (also called cestodes)
b) flukes (also called trematodes)
Life stages
Roundworms: egg to larva to adult
Tapeworms: egg to larva to encased by body in a cyst to adult
Fluke: egg to miracidia to redia to cercaria to metacercaria to adult
Scolex = part of tapeworm attached by suckers and hooks to gut wall of host; sometimes called head
Proglottides = segment-like units of the tapeworm body which, when mature, leave the gut of the primary
host in the faeces; they are budded off from the scolex
The descriptions below are Latin name, common name, symptoms & comments in that order
PA1 Ancylostoma Caninum
Hookworm
Damage to intestinal walls, anemia, itchy skin, dizziness, pneumonitis, anorexia.
Tropical parasite; usual host is dogs.
PA2 Ancylostoma, Egg
Hookworm
Tropical parasite; picked up from working barefoot amongst faeces or eating contaminated food.
PA3 Ancylostoma, Female
Hookworm
Tropical parasite; picked up from working barefoot amongst faeces or eating contaminated food.
PA4 Ascaris, Female
Human roundworm
Sometimes asymptomatic; urticaria; mild to acute colicky pain with distension; reduced appetite; larvae in
lungs can provoke pneumonia the most common worm infection.
World wide, particularly in developing countries; commonly found in dogs and cats.
PA5 Ascaris, Male
Human roundworm
Commonly found in cats and dogs sometimes asymptomatic; urticaria; mild to acute colicky pain with distension;
reduced appetite; larvae in lungs can provoke pneumonia.
The most common worm infection world wide, particularly in developing countries.
PA6 Cimex
Bed bug
Itchy, painful bites which can lead to bacterial infection.
Lives in plaster, walls, furniture, bed frames.
PA7 Clonorchis Sinensis
Human oriental liver fluke.
Chronic liver disease; death if left untreated.
Widespread in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam; via domestic dogs and cats.
PA8 Culex Imago, Female
Gnat/ mosquito
2. roundworms
a) threadworms
b) pinworms
c) hookworms
PA9 Dipylidium, Scolex Mature & Gravid Proglottides
Tapeworm
Grows in segments; the end can be uterus packed with eggs.
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