Helminth parasites glycolysis

Cestodes produce a range of end-products as a result of their respiratory metabolism (Table 5.4). Bryant Flockhart (104) have usefully divided the patterns of respiratory metabolism among parasitic helminths into three types. The metabolism of larval and adult cestodes fits broadly into the first two categories of this biochemical classification and these are illustrated in Fig. 5.4. Type 1 contains the homolactate fermenters in which carbohydrate is degraded, via glycolysis, to lactate and excreted. The ANU (Australian) strain of H. diminuta tends towards this type of metabolism (see below). 

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