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General Life Cycle of Trematodes

Digenetic trematodes, a class within the phylum Platyhelminthes, have indirect life cycles typically involving snails as intermediate hosts. Their life cycle includes five larval stages: miracidium, sporocyst, rediae, cercariae, and metacercariae, with eggs hatching under specific environmental conditions. The metacercariae stage is crucial for infecting the definitive host, where it undergoes encystation in the intestinal tract.

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General Life Cycle of Trematodes

Digenetic trematodes, a class within the phylum Platyhelminthes, have indirect life cycles typically involving snails as intermediate hosts. Their life cycle includes five larval stages: miracidium, sporocyst, rediae, cercariae, and metacercariae, with eggs hatching under specific environmental conditions. The metacercariae stage is crucial for infecting the definitive host, where it undergoes encystation in the intestinal tract.

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LIFE CYCLE PATTERN IN

DIGENETIC TREMATODES
• Trematoda is a class under the phylum
platyhelminthes
• All digenetic trematodes have indirect life cycles.
• If they have only one intermediate host in its life
cycle then it is essentially a species of snail.
• Trematods generally lay operculated eggs while
some may lay spined eggs.
• There is five larval stage in life cycle of
trematodes.
• The eggs usually passed in the faeces of the
host & under suitable conditions miracidium
hatches. Hatching is controlled by light
temperature & salinity.
Five larval stage are miracidium, sporocyst,
rediae, cereariae & metacercariae.
mesocercariae – prolonged cercariae stages may
occur in Alaria spp.
MIRACIDIUM:- Roughly triangular in shape & it
is covered by ciliated ectoderm & have anterior
spin for boring into intermediate host.

SPOROCYST:- An undifferentiated
mass of cells. With in the sporocyst the
germinal cells multiply & produce either
daughter sporocyst or redia.
REDIAE:- Has an oral sucker
& pharynx, saclike intestine &
birth pore.

CERCARIAE:- Has suckers,


adult like intestine, special glands &
anterior spine & also provide with
tail by which it propels itself through
the water.
METACERCARIA

• It reach to the definitive host.


• It may enter in host by contaminated
herbage. In the family Schistosomatidae
cerecaria actively penetrate the skin of the
definitive host.
• The reproductive potential in the trematode
life cycle is enormous.
• When the encysted metacercaria is
swallowed by the final host encystation
occurs in the intestinal tract.
Adult in definitive Host

Eggs Hatch at
suitable
temp.
Matacaecariae Miracidium

Enter in 2nd Enter in 1st


Intermediate Intermediate
host Host

Carcariae
Sporocyst
(outside in water)

Rediae

Daughter
sporocyst

• Cercariae usually encyst on vegetation or in 2nd


intermediate host or swim in water with the help
of tail.
• The encysted form undergoes physiological
maturation to produce the infective stage
metacercaria.

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