Cestodes: Tapeworms Flashcards
"Eat the meat, get the worm Eat the egg, get the cyst"
1
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Taienia solium: pork
A
“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)”
2
Q
Taenia saginata: beef
A
“Egg: nothing
Meat: worm
Scolex with suckers (no hooks)”
“Tape worm only
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3
Q
Diphyllobothrium latum: fish
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Transmission: ingestion of larvae from raw freshwater fish
“Tape worm only
Diseaes: Vitamin B12 deficiency (tapeworm copetes for B12 in intestine)-> anemia”
