Taenia hydatigena
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- 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
- fluid filled cysts on the surface of the liver and in the peritoneal cavity
NB: other Taenia species have muscle and brain as preferred sites in the intermediate hosts
Some can infect humans - zoonoses