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A Report On Taenia Solium

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Taenia solium, also known as the pork tapeworm, is a parasitic tapeworm that has infected millions of people, mostly those from countries that eat large amounts of raw meat like Europe and Asia, but can also be found in Canada, the United States, Argentina and Uruguay. These tapeworms fall under the kingdom: Animalia, phylum: Platyhelminthes, class: Cestoda, order: Cyclophyllidea, family: Taeniidae, genus: Taenia, species: solium. Taenia Solium are flat, segmented parasites that can grow from 2 to 7 meters (6.6 to 22.9 feet) in length, with about 800 segments called proglottids and are normally white in color. The adult tapeworm is divided into three parts: scolex, neck, and strobila. The scolex is the head of the tapeworm, positioned at the end of the organism. The scolex acts as an attachment device with four suckers, hooks and rostellum, a knob-like protrusion, used to attach itself to the intestine of the host. The neck is an elongated region between the scolex and the stroblia. The stroblia contains most of the systems of the tapeworm and is made up of the proglottids. The pork tapeworm does not have a digestive system, but is composed of four systems: tegument, nervous, osmoregulatory and muscular.
The life cycle of the tapeworm starts with a pig, an intermediate host, that eats vegetation that is infected with tapeworm eggs. Eggs can survive for 8 months; however, environmental conditions usually do not let the eggs survive to the next stage in the life cycle. The

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