Intestinal tape worms - Taenia spp

Question 1

Cyclophyllidean cestodes typically have

Answer 1

a scolex with four suckers and a rostellum, which is armed with hooks

Question 2

Taenia saginata

Answer 2

beef tapeworm

Question 3

Unarmed or armed?

Answer 3

unarmed scolex

Question 4

Diagnosis

Answer 4

gravid proglottids in feces

Question 5

When a segment starts to dry up:

Answer 5

eggs rupture and are released

Question 6

Adults live in

Answer 6

SI

Question 7

Eggs are _________

Answer 7

embryonated

Question 8

Intermediate hosts

Answer 8

cattle, goats, sheep

Question 9

Lateral branches T. saginata:

Answer 9

14-32

Question 10

Lateral Branches T. solium:

Answer 10

7-11

Question 11

Humans becomes infected with saginata:

Answer 11

By consuming cysticerci in undercooked beef, scolex attaches to intestine

Question 12

Intermediate host get infected

Answer 12

By consuming eggs which hatch a hexacanth penetrates the intestinal wall and is carried by the circulatory system to muscular system and develops into cysticerci

Question 13

Proglottids may

Answer 13

crawl out of anus

Question 14

Control

Answer 14

meat inspection of pin head cysts

Question 15

Treatment

Answer 15

Praziquantel

Question 16

Taenia solium

Answer 16

Pork tape worm

Question 17

T. Solium armed or unarmed?

Answer 17

armed with two circles of 32 hooks

Question 18

T solium intermediate host

Answer 18

Pigs

Question 19

Why is T. soilum much more danegrous

Answer 19

Human cysticercosis,

autoinfection upon vomiting, travel to brain

Question 20

apolytic

Answer 20

passing full proglottids seen in taenia

Question 21

Anapolytic

Answer 21

proglottid disintegrates during passage (hymenolepsis)