Dipylidium caninum

Paromomycin sulfate has been recommended for other parasitic infections — Dientamoeba fragilis (25 to 30 mg/kg/day in 3 doses for 7 days) Diphyllobothrium latum, Taenia saginata, Taenia solium, Dipylidium caninum adults 1 g every 15 minutes P.968... 

Most patients treated with niclosamide for H diminuta and Dipylidium caninum infections are cured with a 7-day course of treatment a few require a second course. Praziquantel is superior for Hymenolepis (dwarf tapeworm) infection. Niclosamide is not effective against cysticercosis or hydatid disease. 

In the oxidative branch of malate dismutation, malic enzyme oxidizes malate to pyruvate, which is then further oxidized to acetyl-CoA by pyruvate dehydrogenase, an enzyme complex specially adapted to anaerobic functioning in Ascaris suum and possibly in other parasitic helminths like the trematode F. hepatica and the cestode Dipylidium caninum (Diaz and Komuniecki, 1994 Klingbeil et al., 1996). Parasitic helminths like F. hepatica use an acetate succinate CoA-transferase (ASCT) for... 

Diaz, F. and Komuniecki, R.W. (1994) Pyruvate dehydrogenase complexes from the equine nematode, Parascaris equorum, and the canine cestode, Dipylidium caninum, helminths exhibiting anaerobic mitochondrial metabolism. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 67, 289-299. 

Representative species investigated by these and other techniques such as TEM include the following Dipylidium caninum (755, 756), Diphyllobothrium dendriticum (277,280-283), Echinococcus granulosus (570), Hymenolepis diminuta (462,966), H. microstoma (936, 937, 941, 943), H. nana (202, 206, 966), Mesocestoides sp. (304),... 

The presence of cholinesterase has been detected by chemical or histo-chemical means in a number of species e.g. Diphyllobothrium latum, D. dendriticum (796) Taenia saginata, T. taeniaeformis, Hymenolepis spp., E. granulosus, Dipylidium caninum (202, 435, 755, 756, 796). Putative cholinergic synapses are characterised by their content of small clear vesicles tightly packed on the presynaptic side (278). Acetylcholine is thought to serve as an inhibitory neurotransmitter and has been shown to have a... 

The type egg in this group was formerly that of Dipylidium caninum, whose egg was studied by Pence (639, 640). More recently, however, the eggs of several species of Hymenolepis have been examined in great detail... 

As might be predicted, temperature is one of the major factors affecting the rate of development in the intermediate host. The cysticercoids of H. diminuta develop in Tribolium in 5 days at 37°C (Fig. 8.21) but require 65 days at 15°C a temperature higher than 37 °C appears to inhibit cysticercoid development and induce abnormalities (796). The effect of temperature on the development of Dipylidium caninum in the cat flea Ctenocephalides felis felis has also been studied (662). No perceptible growth occurred at 20 °C but development was accelerated for every 5 deg. C increment from 20 °C to 35 °C it was also affected to some extent by the relative humidity. The most satisfactory temperature for development appears to be 32 °C, at which temperature the flea hosts developed normally... 

Kralj, N. (1967). Morphologic and histochemical studies on the nervous system of tapeworms revealed by the cholinesterase method (Taenia hydatigena, Dipylidium caninum and Moniezia expansa). Veterinarski Arhiv, 37 277-86. 

A. A. (1976). [A study of the content of some elements in Hydatigera taeniaeformis and Dipylidium caninum and in their cat hosts in town and country areas of the same biogeochemical province.] In Russian. In Problemy eksperimental not, morfofiziologii igenetiki, pp. 170-3. Kemerovo, USSR Kemerovskil Gosudarstvennyl Universitet. [No named editor]. [HA/46/3829]... 

Pugh, R. E. (1986). Effects of the development of Dipylidium caninum and on the host reaction to this parasite in the adult flea (Ctenocephalides felis felis). Parasitology Research, 73 171-7. 

Pugh, R. E. Moorehouse, D. E. (1985). Factors affecting the development of Dipylidium caninum in Ctenocephalides felis felis (Bouche, 1835). Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde, 71 765-75. 

Shield, J. M. (1969). Dipylidium caninum, Echinococcus granulosus and Hydatigera taeniformis histochemical identification of cholinesterases. Experimental Parasitology, 25 217-31. 

Histochemical localization of monoamines in the nervous system of Dipylidium caninum by the formaldehyde fluorescence technique. International Journal for Parasitology, 1 135-8. 

Threadgold, L. T. (1962). An electron microscopic study of the tegument and associated structures of Dipylidium caninum. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 103 135-40. 

The important tapeworms inhabiting the digestive tract of animals are Moniezia expansa, M. benedeni and Thysaniezia giardi (ruminants), Anoplocephala perfoliata, A. magna, and Par anoplocephala mamillana (horses), Dipylidium caninum,... 

Diphyllobothrium latum (fish), Taenia saginata (beef). Taenia solium (pork), Dipylidium caninum (dog)... 

Terada, M., Ishii, A. I., Kino, H. and Sano, M. (1982) Studies on chemotherapy of parasitic helminths (VI) Effects of various neuropharmacological agents on the motility of Dipylidium caninum. Jap. J. Pharmacol. 32 479-488. 

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