Roundworms: separate sexes
a. Adult intestinal nematodes
- Sometimes lung passage of larvae, adults in intestine.
- Transmission faeco-oral or transcutaneous
b. Larval tissue nematodes: various species.
- Trichinella larvae in muscles and heart, transmission via meat.
- Toxocara larvae in various organs (visceral larva migrans)
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- Tapeworms: hermaphrodite adults in the intestine or larvae in the tissues
- Transmission of Taenia faeco-oral or via meat with bladder worm disease
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- Flukes: most are hermaphrodite, except blood flukes
- In blood vessels, the intestine, biliary tract, lungs
- Transmission via food (zoonoses) or transcutaneous (schistosomes)
- First intermediate host always a freshwater snail