Tissue and Intestinal Cestodes - T. SOLIUM AND T. SAGINATA

Question 1

SCOLEX: 4 suckers and circle of hooks arranged around a rostellum

GRAVID PROGLOTTIDS: have 5-10 primary uterine branches

Answer 1

Taenia solium

Question 2

SCOLEX: 4 suckers and NO hooklets (NO rostellum)

GRAVID PROGLOTTIDS: have 15-20 primary uterine branches

Answer 2

Taenia saginata

Question 3

Intermediate host of T. SOLIUM

Answer 3

PIGS

Question 4

Ingestion of LARVAE (cysticerci) in undercooked PORK

Answer 4

ADULT tapeworm in INTESTINE – TAENIASIS

mild intestinal symptoms

Question 5

Ingest EGGS in food or water contaminated w/ HUMAN FECES

Answer 5

CYSTICERCUS especially in BRAIN causing CYSTICERCOSIS

NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS - headache, vomiting, seizure

EYES: uveitis or retinitis, larvae in viterous

living cysticerci do NOT cause inflammation

can become SPACE OCCUPYING LESIONS in the brain

Question 6

Diagnostic test (Larvae) T. solium

Answer 6

GRAVID PROGLOTTIDS in STOOL

Question 7

Diagnostic test (eggs) T. solium

Answer 7

BIOPSY

CT SCAN

Question 8

Treatment for Taeniasis

Answer 8

PRAZIQUANTEL

Question 9

Treatment for Cysticercosis

Answer 9

PRAZIQUANTEL
Albendazole
Surgical removal of cysticerci

Question 10

Intermediate host of T. SAGINATA

Answer 10

CATTLE

Question 11

Ingestion of LARVAE (cysticerci) in UNDERCOOKED BEEF

Answer 11

ADULT TAPEWORM in INTESTINE – TAENIASIS

abdominal pain
weight loss
pruritus ani
intestinal obstruction

similar w/ T. solium

does NOT cause cysticercosis in human