Dipylidium caninum

• D. caninum is also known as

  Dog or cat tapeworm
• Characteristic of eggs

  Egg packets
• Describe the packets

  Membrane-enclosed
• How many eggs are usually contained in each packets?

  5 to 30 eggs
• Describe the rostellum of D. caninum

  Club-shaped armed rostellum
• How many circlets of spins are residing in the rostellum of D. caninum?

  6 or 7
• Describe the hooklets of D. caninum

  Seven rows of rose thorn-shaped hooklets
• What is the shape of the proglottids?

  Pumpkin seeds in shape
• Diagnostic stage of D. caninum

  Embryonated eggs and gravid proglottids
• Infective stage of D. caninum

  Cysticercoids
• MOT of D. caninum

  Ingestion
• Definitive host of D. caninum

  Dogs, cats and humans
• Intermediate hosts of D. caninum

  Ctenocephalides canis, Ctenocephalides felis, and Pulex irritans
• Infected persons may exhibit this symptom when gravid proglottids migrate out of the anus

  Anal pruritus
• Drug of choice

  Praziquantel
• Alternative treatment

  Niclosamide