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Types of Taenia that cause infections in humans include Taenia solium (pork tapeworm), Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm), and Taenia asiatica (Asian tapeworm). [2] Taenia saginata is due to eating contaminated undercooked beef while Taenia solium and Taenia asiatica is from contaminated undercooked pork. [2] Diagnosis is by examination of stool ...
Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a parasitic infection of the nervous system caused by the larvae of the tapeworm Taenia solium, also known as the "pork tapeworm". The disease is primarily transmitted through direct contact with human feces, often through the consumption of food or water containing Taenia solium eggs.
Taenia solium, the pork tapeworm, belongs to the cyclophyllid cestode family Taeniidae. It is found throughout the world and is most common in countries where pork is eaten. It is a tapeworm that uses humans ( Homo sapiens ) as its definitive host and pigs (family Suidae ) as the intermediate or secondary hosts .
International Task Force for Disease Eradication in 1992 reported that cysticercosis is potentially eradicable. [32] It is feasible because there are no animal reservoirs besides humans and pigs. The only source of Taenia solium infection for pigs is from humans, a definite host. Theoretically, breaking the life cycle seems easy by doing ...
The definitive hosts for these Taenia species are canids. The adult tapeworms live in the intestines of animals like dogs, foxes, and coyotes. Intermediate hosts such as rabbits, goats, sheep, horses, cattle and sometimes humans get the disease by inadvertently ingesting tapeworm eggs (gravid proglottids) that have been passed in the feces of an infected canid.
Rice grain calcification is a distinctive radiological finding characterized by the presence of small, elongated, or oval calcific foci resembling grains of rice. This pattern of calcification is typically observed in soft tissues and is associated with certain infectious or inflammatory conditions.
The 1990–2013 Global Burden of Disease Study estimated 5,500 direct deaths from schistosomiasis, [77] while more than 200,000 people were estimated in 2013 to die annually from causes related to schistosomiasis. [78] Another 20 million have severe consequences from the disease. [79] It is the most deadly of the neglected tropical diseases. [80]
Taenia saginata: Intestines stool worldwide distribution ingestion of undercooked beef Cysticercosis-Pork tapeworm: Taenia solium: Brain, muscle, Eye (Cysts in conjunctiva/anterior chamber/sub-retinal space) stool, blood, imaging of cysts in the brain or any soft tissue Asia, Africa, South America, Southern Europe, North America.