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pork tapeworm

flatworm

Also known as: Taenia solium, Taeniarhynchus solium

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characteristics

In tapeworm
The pork tapeworm (Taenia solium, or Taeniarhynchus solium), found wherever raw pork is eaten, lives in the human intestine in its adult stage. Each proglottid, following fertilization, may contain as many as 40,000 embryos encased in separate capsules. If the embryos, which pass out with the…
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effect on host

In digestive system disease: Tapeworms
…saginata, found in beef, and T. solium, found in pork. Larvae of Echinococcus granulosus, mature worms of the genus Diphyllobothrium, and some dwarf tapeworms also cause disease. Fertilized ova are passed in feces and are ingested by an intermediary host animal, such as a cow. The embryos migrate to the…
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