TAENIA SOLIUM

• Pork tapeworm

• Hooked tapeworm

Common name

Small intestine

HABITAT

Pigs

IH

man

DF

Cysticercus cellulose

Larval stage

• Cysticercus

• cellulose/ embryonated egg

Infective stage

ingestion of measly pork with embryonated egg

MOT

• Taeniasis solium (due to adult)

• Cysticercosis (due to larva)

Pathology

Praziquantel, Niclosamide

Treatment

• With four cup-like suckers

• With armed rostellum

  • two rows of large and small hooklets

Scolex

<1000 segments/ proglottids

no. of segments

• 7-13 to 15 lateral branches

• dendritic/ fingerlike

• 30-50 thousand ova

Gravid proglottids

7 meters (2-4 meters)

Adult length

Taeniasis solium

Pathology:

• Due to adult stage

• Abdominal discomfort, hunger, malabsorption

Cysticercosis

Pathology:

• Due to larva

• Accidental ingestion of egg

• more dangerous

neurocysticercosis;

• Cysticercosis can spread to other organs

• if it migrates to the brain, it is called ______________

• the most common parasitic CNS disease

• the most serious manifestation

• it may lead to death