Taenia solium
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Parasites
- Giardia lamblia
- Toxoplasma gondii
- Entamoeba histolytica
- Cryptosporidium
- Naegleria fowleri
- Trypanosoma brucei
- Plasmodium Overview
- Plasmodium Disease (Malaria)
- Babesia
- Trypanosoma cruzi
- Leishmania
- Trichomonas vaginalis
- Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm)
- Ascaris lumbricoides (giant roundworm)
- Strongyloides stercoralis (threadworm)
- Ancylostoma and Necator
- Trichinella spiralis
- Trichuris trichiura (whipworm)
- Toxocara canis
- Onchocerca volvulus
- Loa loa
- Wuchereria bancrofti
- Taenia solium
- Diphyllobothrium latum
- Echinococcus granulosus
- Schistosoma
- Clonorchis sinensis
- Sarcoptes scabiei (Scabies)
- Pediculus humanis and Phthirus pubis (Lice)
- Taenia solium
- Characteristics
- Includes T. solium (pork tapeworm)
- Type of flat cestode (tapeworm) parasite
- Transmission and Presentation
- Ingestion of larvae in undercooked pork (cysts in muscle tissue)
- Causes intestinal tapeworm
- May have nausea, anorexia, or epigastric pain (MB)
- Peripheral eosinophilia may be seen (MB)
- Causes intestinal tapeworm
- Ingestion of eggs in food (contaminated with human feces)
- Causes cysticercosis
- Neurocysticercosis
- Cystic CNS lesions (small ring-enhancing lesions)
- Seizures, headache, altered mental status
- Cystic lesions involving muscles or subcutaneous tissues
- Neurocysticercosis
- Causes cysticercosis
- Ingestion of larvae in undercooked pork (cysts in muscle tissue)
- Diagnosis
- Stool Microscopy (O&P)
- Proglottids (tapeworm sections) and eggs in stool
- Brain imaging for neurocysticercosis
- Stool Microscopy (O&P)
- Treatment
- Praziquantel
- Add albendazole for neurocysticercosis
- Characteristics