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<bold>FIGURE 54-5</bold> <bold>Life cycle of intestinal tapeworms <i>Taenia solium</i> (pork tapeworm) and <i>Taenia saginata</i> (beef tapeworm).</bold> Humans acquire intestinal tapeworm infections by ingesting the tissue stage of the parasite (cysticercus) in inadequately cooked meat (1). The parasite then hatches in the intestine (2) and matures to an intestinal tapeworm (3). The pork tapeworm (outside diagram) has a crown of spines on its head and ...
<bold>FIGURE 54-5</bold> <bold>Life cycle of intestinal tapeworms <i>Taenia solium</i> (pork tapeworm) and ...
Figure 288.3. Gravid proglottid segments from <italic>T. saginata</bold> (<bold>A</bold>) and <italic>T. solium</bold> (<bold>B</bold>). Cleared in glycerol and mounted on a slide. <italic>Ub</bold>, Uterine branches. (<bold>A</bold> and <bold>B</bold> courtesy of Sylvia Paz Diaz Camacho.) <bold>C:</bold> Scanning electron micrograph of <italic>T. solium</bold> proglottid, showing genital atrium <italic>(a)</bold> and eggs <italic>(e)</bold> on surface (<italic>arrows</bold>).
Figure 288.3. Gravid proglottid segments from <italic>T. saginata</bold> (<bold>A</bold>) and <italic>T. soli...