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    Taenia saginata

    Trevor A. Crowell, M.D.
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    MICROBIOLOGY

    • Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm) and Taenia solium (pork tapeworm) are intestinal cestodes transmitted by ingestion of undercooked meat
    • Epidemiology: T. saginata is the most common and most widely distributed human tapeworm, infecting 60 million people worldwide; endemic throughout Latin America, Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East. Less common in Europe and southeast Asia; uncommon in Australia and U.S.
    • Life cycle:
      • Eggs or gravid proglottids are passed in stool.
      • Cattle ingest contaminated vegetation and oncospheres hatch in the intestine.
      • Organisms invade the intestinal wall, migrate to striated muscles, and develop into cysticerci.
      • Humans ingest raw or undercooked infected meat and gastric juices activate larvae, leading to evagination of scolex and attachment to the jejunum
      • Over 2-3 months, cysticercus develops into an adult tapeworm; may grow up to 10 meters in length and live up to 25 years.
    • Adults may have 1,000-2,000 proglottids, each containing tens of thousands of eggs, and a distinctive scolex with 4 disks.
    • Eggs are spherical, thick walled, radially striated and measure 30-35 microns in diameter.

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    Last updated: January 3, 2016

    Citation

    Crowell, Trevor A. "Taenia Saginata." Johns Hopkins ABX Guide, The Johns Hopkins University, 2016. Pediatrics Central, peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX_Guide/540535/all/Taenia_saginata.
    Crowell TA. Taenia saginata. Johns Hopkins ABX Guide. The Johns Hopkins University; 2016. https://peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX_Guide/540535/all/Taenia_saginata. Accessed March 24, 2019.
    Crowell, T. A. (2016). Taenia saginata. In Johns Hopkins ABX Guide. Available from https://peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX_Guide/540535/all/Taenia_saginata
    Crowell TA. Taenia Saginata [Internet]. In: Johns Hopkins ABX Guide. The Johns Hopkins University; 2016. [cited 2019 March 24]. Available from: https://peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX_Guide/540535/all/Taenia_saginata.
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