Parasitology Cestode with 100% correct answers 2024
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Tape Worms
What are cestodes commonly called?
The tape worm releases eggs in feces which are ingested by cows. The cow develops cysts in their muscles and when humans eat this beef undercooked they get the parasite.
How is Taenia saginata transmitted?
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Tape Worms - answer What are cestodes commonly called?
The tape worm releases eggs in feces which are ingested by cows.
The cow develops cysts in their muscles and when humans eat this
beef undercooked they get the parasite. - answer How is Taenia
saginata transmitted?
The tape worm releases eggs in feces which are ingested by pigs.
The pig develops cysts in their muscles and when humans eat this
pork undercooked they get the parasite. - answer How is Taenia
solium transmitted?
Humans can get both the tape worm form through ingestion of
undercooked pork or can ingest the eggs and get the cyst form. -
answer What is unique about Taenia solium?
Taenia saginata (no hooks) - answer What cestode is this?
How can the species be differentiated?
Taenia saginata (>13 lateral branches of proglottid) - answer What
cestode is this?
How can the species be differentiated?
Taenia solium (hooks) - answer What cestode is this?
, How can the species be differentiated?
Taenia solium (hooks) - answer What cestode is this?
How can the species be differentiated?
Taenia solium (<13 lateral branches of proglottid) - answer What
cestode is this?
How can it be differentiated?
Larva stage
Tape-worm stage - answer What stage of Taenia saginata do cows
get?
What stage of Taenia saginata do humans get?
Cysticercosis - answer What complication occurs if humans ingest
Taenia solium eggs?
Unilocular blindness
Space occupying lesions/blebs that can cause seizures. - answer
What is the complication of ocular cysticercosis?
Of neurocysticercosis?
An adult tapeworm (Taenia spp.) - answer What cestode is this?
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