by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 20, 2014
Trichinella spiralis (Owen, 1835) Railliet, 1896 (Figures 4-64 through 4-66) ETYMOLOGY:Trichinella = hair like and spiralis for the spiral nature of the larval stage SYNONYMS:Trichinaspiralis Owen, 1835 HISTORY: The worm was first recovered at necropsy from the...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 20, 2014
Trichurisfelis (Diesing, 1851) Diaz-Ungria, 1963) ETYMOLOGY: The genus name Trichuris, which may be translated as "hair tail," is actually a misnomer. A more appropriate name is Trichocephalus or Trichocephalos ("hair head"), nomenclature that is employed in Russia...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 20, 2014
Anatrichosoma species (Figure 4-63) This genus of rarely encountered, capillarid-like worms was first discovered in the skin and nasal mucosa of monkeys in Asia and Africa and was named Trichosomacutaneum by Swift, Boots, and Miller (1922). The genus Anatrichosoma was...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 20, 2014
Calodium hepaticum (Bancroft, 1893) Moravec, 1982 (Figures 4-61 through 4-62) Callodiumhepaticum is better known by its synonym Capillariahepatica. This parasite lives within the parenchyma of the liver of rodents. The female worm deposits eggs in the liver where they...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 20, 2014
Pearsonema feliscati (Diesing, 1851) Freitas and Mendonça (1960) (Fig. 4-60) ETYMOLOGY: Named for Dr. Pearson and felis-cat for the feline host. SYNONYMS: Moravec (1982) accepted the species Pearsonemafeliscati as being distinct from Pearsonemaplica. After a long...
