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- What are the differences between Taenia solium and Taenia Saginata?
- What is the morphology of Taenia Saginata?
- What is the morphology of Taenia solium?
- How are the Taenia species differentiated from each other?
- Which is more severe Taenia Solium and Taenia Saginata?
- What are the characteristics of Taenia Solium?
- What is the morphology of adult worm?
- What is the characteristics of Taenia Saginata?
- How is Taenia Solium diagnosis?
- Where are mature Proglottids in Taenia Solium?
- What are the adaptive features of Taenia Solium?
- How can Taenia Solium and Taenia Saginata be treated?
- What is the infective stage of Taenia Solium?
- How is Taenia Saginata treatment?
What are the differences between Taenia solium and Taenia Saginata?
The key difference between Taenia solium and Taenia saginata is that the pigs are the intermediate hosts of Taenia solium, while the cattle are the intermediate hosts of Taenia saginata. Tapeworms are parasitic segmented flatworms which are several meters long. They belong to genus Taenia.
What is the morphology of Taenia Saginata?
Taenia saginata has a very distinctive morphology. This flatworm can grow in length from 4 to 12 meters long and 2 milimeters in diameter consisting of a scolex, neck, and strobila. Adults possess a flat, ribbon-like body shape that is important for absorbing nutrients from its hosts' intestine.
What is the morphology of Taenia solium?
Adult Taenia solium is a flattened ribbon like tapeworm that is white in color. The adult worm measures about 2-3 meters in length. The body of parasite can be divided into 3 parts:- Head (Scolex), neck and body (strobila)
How are the Taenia species differentiated from each other?
Differentiation of the two human Taenia species is based on the number of uterine branches present in well-preserved gravid proglottids or on the absence or presence of hooks in the scolex of the tapeworm.
Which is more severe Taenia Solium and Taenia Saginata?
saginata taeniasis often experience more symptoms that those with T. solium because the T. saginata tapeworm is larger in size (up to 10 meters (m)) than T. solium (usually 3 m).
What are the characteristics of Taenia Solium?
Characteristics: Taenia solium is a tapeworm of the class cestoidea, order cyclophyllidea, and family Taeniidae 1. Adult worm: Mature worms are found only in humans. Adult worm grows to approximately 2-4 m. Scolex has 4 suckers and the rostellum has two crowns of horns.
What is the morphology of adult worm?
Adult worms appear as elongate whitish tubes with pointed tails. They have three lips surrounding the anterior mouth, a large oesophageal bulb, and a conspicuous anterior cuticular inflation (swollen head).
What is the characteristics of Taenia Saginata?
CHARACTERISTICS: Taenia saginata is a tapeworm of the class cestoidea, order cyclophyllidea, and family Taeniidae 1 2. Adult Worm: Mature worms are found only in humans. Mature worms are 4 to 8 meters in length with 1,000 to 2,000 proglottids. The scolex has 4 suckers and the rostellum has no hooks.
How is Taenia Solium diagnosis?
Diagnosis of Taenia tapeworm infections is made by examination of stool samples; individuals should also be asked if they have passed tapeworm segments. Stool specimens should be collected on three different days and examined in the lab for Taenia eggs using a microscope.
Where are mature Proglottids in Taenia Solium?
saginata (however it may reach up to 25 m) and 2 to 7 m for T. solium. The adults produce proglottids which mature, become gravid, detach from the tapeworm, and migrate to the anus or are passed in the stool (approximately 6 per day). T.
What are the adaptive features of Taenia Solium?
Morphological adaptations
Taenia solium has flattened a leaf or a ribbon-like body so, that they can fit in the spaces where they have their habitat. The teguments out the covering of Taenia is freely permeable to water and nutrients, but it protects against digestion by the host's alkaline digestive juice.
How can Taenia Solium and Taenia Saginata be treated?
Albendazole, given as 400mg daily for three days, may be used as another option for the treatment of taeniasis, although this is based on studies treating small numbers of infected individuals with T. solium or T. saginata.
What is the infective stage of Taenia Solium?
solium form distinctive pearly-white cysts (cysticerci) which appear as small (8-10mm in diameter) fluid-filled bladders (hence the common name of bladder-worms), each containing a single invaginated protoscolex (infective stage).
How is Taenia Saginata treatment?
Treatment of T. saginata infection is with a single oral dose of praziquantel 5 or 10 mg/kg. Alternatively, a single 2-g dose of niclosamide (not available in the US) is given as 4 tablets (500 mg each) that are chewed one at a time and swallowed with a small amount of water.
