No slides of Acanthocephala Phylum
1) Newborn larvae. Enter the
muscle and encyst.
2)
3 larvae in 3 separate cysts in muscle cells.
3)
3 larvae in 1 single cyst in a muscle cell.
Cysts
can survive for years until it degenerates or calcify.
4)
Old cyst undergoing degeneration in muscle.
5)
Old cyst undergoing calcification in muscle.
6)
Calcified cysts.
Cysts
become nurse cells once the enclosing
muscle cell degenerates.
Infected
meat is eaten.
8)
Muscle larvae. Isolated by pepsin digestion in the stomach.
9)
In feces.
Develop
in the epithelium of the small intestine where females release newborns into the
lymphatics.
10)
8 hrs after oral infection (AOI)
11)
20 hrs AOI
12)
27 hrs AOI
13)
34 hrs AOI
14)
Adult female – 2x the size of males
16)
Egg in stool.
17)
Adult males.
18)
Adult females.
19)
Adult males + females.
