Difference between revisions of "Taenia hydatigena"

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Revision as of 21:51, 25 June 2010

  • the most important species
  • final host
    • dog
    • alimentary tract
  • intermediate host
    • ruminant, horse, or pig
  • life cycle is completed when the carnivore eats the tissues of the intermediate host containing the cysts
  • the intermediate stage - Cysticercus tennuicollis

NB: other Taenia species have muscle and brain as preferred sites in the intermediate hosts

Some can infect humans - zoonoses