Cestodes: Tapeworms

Question 1

Taienia solium: pork

Answer 1

“Transimssion: ingestion of larvae encysted in undercooked pork and Ingestion of eggs
Scolex with hooks
Segements = proglottids (in all cestodes)”

“Tape worm and cystericerscosis
Disease: intestinal infection (ingestion of meat)
Disease: cysticercosis, neurocysticercosis (ingestion of eggs)”

Question 2

Taenia saginata: beef

Answer 2

“Egg: nothing
Meat: worm
Scolex with suckers (no hooks)”

“Tape worm only
“

Question 3

Diphyllobothrium latum: fish

Answer 3

Transmission: ingestion of larvae from raw freshwater fish

“Tape worm only
Diseaes: Vitamin B12 deficiency (tapeworm copetes for B12 in intestine)-> anemia”