1. Taenia solium

2. INTRODUCTION
MORPHOLOGY
LIFE CYCLE
CLINICAL FEATURES
DIAGNOSIS
TREATMENT

3. INTRODUCTION CLASS CESTODA HELMENTHIS KINGDOM ANIMALIA
PHYLUM PLATI
HELMENTHIS
CLASS CESTODA
ORDER CYCLOPHYLLIDEA
FAMILY TAENIIDAE
GENUS TAENIA
SPECIES SOLIUM

4. Pork tapeworm
Intestinal zoonotic parasite
Adult worm lives in human intestine
Larval form(Cysticercus cellulose) in pig
Most common in Latin America, Africa and India - 400,000 people have symptomatic neurocysticercosis in Latin America
Triploblastic acoelomate

6. MORPHOLOGY
.   Adult is flattened ribbon-like, creamy white in color, measures about 2-4 m .

7. SCOLEX NECK 4suckers,1 rostellum
25-50 hooklets arranged in a double crown
Organ of attachment
NECK
narrowest part of the body
Budding zone containing germinative tissue
STROBILA
immature proglottides: width>length
mature proglottides: width=length
gravid proglottides: width<length
Each proglottid is a complete reproductive unit
Tegument-villi-nutrition

9. LIFE CYCLE

12. PATHOGENESIS TAENIASIS
SCOLEX ATTACHES TO MUCOSA
2 MONTHS OF INFECTION
GRAVID PROGLOTTIDS IN FAECES (60,000) EGGS
MINOR SYMPTOMS-ABDOMINAL PAIN DIARRHOEA NAUSEA OR ASYMTOMATIC
TAENIASIS

13. CYSTICERCOSIS
NODULES
EYES
BRAIN
MUSCLES

14. CLINICAL MANIFESTATION
MOSTLY ASYMTOMATIC
INCUBATION :MONTHS-5yrs
DEPENDS ON LOCATION OF CYST

15. SUBCUTANEOUS
The subcutaneous nodules are usually found in head, limbs, neck, abdomen and back. They are movable and painless.

16. CYSTICERCOSIS IN TONGUE

17. NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS

18. DIAGNOSIS Immunological tests are done only for reference-ELISA
TAENIASIS
DIRECT FECAL EXAMINATION
BRINE FLOATATION TECHNIQUE
CELLOPHANE TAPE TECHNIQUE
CYSTICERCOSIS
X RAY
CT ,MRI
Immunological tests are done only for reference-ELISA

19. TREATMENT
albendazole
praziquantel

20. PREVENTION Health education Avoid eating raw bean-pork.
avoid pigs eating human stool.
sanitary inspection of slaughter and sanitary disposal of night soil.

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