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Habitat Adult: In small intestine of man Larvae: In muscular tissues of cattle Eggs: In faeces of man or in gravid segments arthritis pain on shoulder medrol 16 mg amex. Colour: ivory white Scolex (head): quadrate rheumatoid arthritis depression buy medrol 16mg amex, with four suckers, no looks, no rostellum Strobila: 1000-2000 proglottides Parasitology 118 Mature Proglottides: Broader than long Genital pores are arranged irregularly alternate on the lateral margin of each segment Gravid proglottide Detach when fully develop and pass through the anus independently. Larvae: Known as Cysticercus bovis Found in skeletal and muscular tissues of cattle Has four suckers and no rostellum and hooklets Egg (Embryophore): identical with the egg of T. Size: - 33-40 m Shape: -Round Colour: - Shell-dark yellowish-brown, content light yellowish gray. Shell:-Thick, Smooth, brown, radially straited (embryophore) Content: - A round granular mass enclosed by a fine membrane with six hooklets Stains red (acid fast) in Ziehl-Neelsen staining technique, this character helps to differentiate from T. Egg(hexacanth embryolarva(Cysticercus bovis) Adult Parasitology 119 Man acquires infection from raw or under cooked infected meat. Following ingestion, the larvae become attached to the wall of the small intestine with its suckers. Proglottides are formed from the neck region and the larvae grow into a long adult tapeworm. When fully developed the gravid segments become detached and the eggs are discharged only after the gravid segments have been separated from the worm. Gravid segments containing eggs and eggs from ruptured segments are passed in the faeces. The embryos escape from the eggs and pass through the intestinal wall into a blood vessel. Through the blood circulation they are carried to muscles and develop into infective cystic larvae called cysticercus bovis. TheScientific Book Center, Cairo) Parasitology 120 Pathogenicity: - Causes taeniasis Major symptoms are loss of appetite, weight loss, hunger, acute intestinal obstruction, eosinophilia, and discomfort by the crawling of segments through the anus. Avoid eating raw or insufficiently cooked meat which may contain infective larvae. Identifying gravid segments and scolex recovered from clothing or passed in faeces. Owing to the inherent problem of missing many infections during routine stool examination. Estimates made by different investigators of the prevalence Parasitology 121 of taeniasis in Ethiopia vary widely, from 2% -16% to over 70% (Kloos H et al, 1993, Yared M et al 2001). Taeniasis is so common in the country and the tradition of self-treatment is so well developed that most people do not use the health services for diagnosis and treatment. Instead, Ethiopians use about dozens of traditional plant medicines, including Kosso (Hagenia abyssinica). Enkoko (Embelia schimperi), and Metere (Glinus lotoides) upon noticing proglottids in the feces or when experimenting abdominal discomfort, usually every 2 months (Shibru T, 1986). Taenia solium (Pork tape worm) Geographical Distribution:-Widely distributed where human faeces reach pigs and pork is eaten raw or insufficiently cooked. Habitat: Adult: In the small intestine of man Larva: In muscular tissues of pig Egg: In the faeces of man and in gravid segment. Larvae:Known as Cysticercus cellulosae Found in skeletal and muscular tissues of pig Has four sucers, rostellum and two raws of hooklets Egg (embryophore): -morphologically identical with the egg of T. Size: - 31-43 (m Shape: -Round Colour:- Shell-dark yellowish-brown, content light yellowish gray. Shell: -Thick, Smooth, brown, radially straighten (embryophore) Content: - A round granular mass enclosed by a fine membrane with 6 hooklets. Does not stains red (acid fast) in Ziehl-Neelsen staining technique Life Cycle: the life cycle of T. Egg(hexacanth embryo) larva(Cysticercus cellulosae) Adult Parasitology 123 Man acquires infection from eating raw or under cooked pork that develops into adult in the intestine or from contaminated food or drink with faeces containing the eggs and develops into larval stage in visceral organs. Mode of Transmission can be Eating raw or under cooked pork meat Eggs in food or drink Internal autoinfections Pathology: Taeniasis and cysticercosis Major symptoms are as a result of the adult worm.

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Insecticides are often not locally available or are too expensive for smallholder farmers arthritis webmd generic medrol 4 mg fast delivery. Health problems related to misuse of insecticides (Coulibaly and Lowenberg-DeBoer arthritis in my dog's hips order 4mg medrol, 2002; Maumbe and Swinton, 2003) are another reason for considering alternative solutions to the podborer problem. Hairy caterpillar In the Sahelian zone, which is the second most important area where cowpeas are grown, insect pest pressure is low but on occasions hairy caterpillar (Amsacta moorie Butler syn. Amsacta moloneyi Druce) can totally destroy large areas of the crop and cultivar resistance is not available. At the beginning of the rainy season in the Sahelian zone of Senegal, waves of female Amsacta moths emerge and lay eggs on a large range of plant species (Ndoye, 1978). They will feed on a range of grasses, pearl millet, sorghum and peanut but they show preference for cowpea. If the cowpea plants are young when they are infested, they are defoliated and killed. If the cowpea plants are large, they can outgrow the attack and are only partially defoliated. Usually, however, the waves of hairy caterpillars arrive when the cowpea plants are young. Hairy caterpillar can be controlled by synthetic insecticides; however, farmers usually do not have the spraying equipment or supplies of insecticide to enable them to control the sporadic large waves of hairy caterpillar that occasionally occur in the Sahelian zone. Pest predators As in all cropping systems there are a variety of natural enemies feeding/developing on cowpea insect pests. These natural enemies include more than 25 parasitoid species belonging to the families listed in Table 5. These include mites, beetles, ants, bugs and spiders (Bottenberg, Tamт and Singh, 1998; Adati et al. Parasitoids and entomoviruses attacking the podborer Maruca vitrata in West Africa Parasitoids Hymenoptera, Trichogrammatidae Trichogrammatoidea eldanae Hymenoptera, Eulophidae Tretrastichus sp. Biotechnological developments Biotechnological approaches in cowpea improvement the goal of cowpea breeding programmes is to develop consumer-preferred varieties with high yield and resistance to biotic and abiotic constraints to production. Traditional plant-breeding approaches to cowpea improvement have had many successes over the last 30 years. Three principal methods are used in breeding the self-pollinating cowpea: pedigree, mass selection and single seed descent. The pedigree method, often with slight modifications, is the one most frequently used. Selections are based largely on the main character of interest, for example, resistance to the parasitic weed Striga. Detailed data on maturity, time to flower, growth habit, and grain and fodder yields are collected and the most promising single plants selected for advancement. Other traits of interest are selected for as well, including seed colour, seed texture, seed size and leaf yield. The relative importance of these traits varies with the particular breeding programme. For example, leaf yield is more important in eastern and southern Africa while west and central African breeding projects lay more emphasis on grain and fodder yields. Over the years, improvements have resulted in more than a doubling of the average yield of the crop, from about 200 kg/ha to about 500 kg/ha. However, even this still-modest level of productivity can only be guaranteed if one or two insecticide sprays are applied. Unfortunately, there are no utilisable resistance genes for post-flowering insect pests in the cowpea genome. Cowpea is extremely well-isolated from other Vigna species that might provide sources of resistance genes. Many efforts have sought to create viable wide crosses between cowpea and its nearest relatives, but the gulf has proven too wide.

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