
Parasitology
lab-14(Taenia solium)
1- Taenia solium:
((
pork tapeworm ))
1- habitat : small intestine (jejunum)
2- definitive host : man only
3- intermediate host : pig , man , sometimes dog and other animals
4- human can be intermediate host for T.solium , but only definitive host for T.saginata
5- human become intermediate host by the following ways :
1- Peristalsis in opposite side : regurgitation of the egg to the stomach Hcl
intestine bile release of oncosphere(larva) {{autoinfection}}
2- Human is carrier of adult poor hygiene egg will contaminate the food (self
infection )
3- Restaurants workers poor hygiene egg will contaminate the food
6- route of infection for man and animals : oral route
7- infective stage to animals : egg
8- infective stage to man : cysticercus cellulose in pork meat
9- life cycle :: adult in small intestine of man emberyonated egg+ segments in feces
egg and gravid segment on soil eaten by swine or (man ) larva (oncosphere)
hatch in the intestine penetration of the wall go to blood carried by blood to
other tissue cysticercus cellulose eaten by man (raw or insufficiently
cooked)evaginated scolex attach to mucosa adult in small intestine of man
10-adult :: scolex + hooks + suckers + neck + gravid segment when gravid segment
separate from the body and go outside in feces so the egg will appear in the stool after
the rapture of gravid segment
11- Hcl of stomach + bile pigment => lead to rapture of cysticercus cellulose and
release of larva (oncosphere)
12- diagnosis : egg or gravid segment in stool

13- morphology :
1- Scolex : a- evaginated & invaginated
b- rostellum
c- double row of hooks
d- suckers
2- Gravid segment : 7-13 branch of uterus
3- Egg ( like the egg of T.saginata)
4- Mature segment: a- square shape (but T.saginata = rectangle shape)
b- accessory lobe between the uterus and the other lobe
T.saginatabi-lobed T.soliumtri-lobed