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Table 3.5 Final and intermediate hosts of common tapeworms.

definitive host Intermediate host
Adult Host Site Larvae Host Site
Taenia solium Human Small intestine Cysticercus Pig, human Muscle, liver,
cellulosae lungs, kidney
Taenia saginata Human Small intestine Cysticercus Cattle, other Muscle
bovis ruminants
Taenia ovis Dog Small intestine Cysticercus Sheep Muscle
ovis
Taenia (Multiceps) Dogs, foxes Small intestine Coenurus Sheep, goat, Central nervous
multiceps cerebralis cattle, pig system
Taenia hydatigena Dog, wild Small intestine Cysticercus Sheep, cattle, Peritoneum,
canids tenuicollis pig liver capsule
Taenia pisiformis Dogs, foxes Small intestine Cysticercus Rabbit Peritoneal cavity,
pisiformis liver and kidney
Taenia Cat Small intestine Cysticercus Mouse, rat Liver
taeniaeformis fasciolaris
(strobilocercus)
Taenia serialis Dog Small intestine Coenurus Rabbit Connective
serialis tissue
Echinococcus Dog or wild Small intestine Hydatid cyst Sheep, cattle, Liver, lung, other
granulosus canidae (unilocular) horse, human, visceral organs,
other wild muscle and
and domestic brain
mammals
Echinococcus Dog or wild Small intestine Hydatid cyst Arvicoline Liver, other
multilocularis canidae (multilocular) Rodents, dogs, organs
human, other
ruminants

scanning techniques for cerebral cysts and on the cysticerci, although this method does
finding antibody to cysticerci in the cerebrospi- reduce the economic value of the meat. In
nal fluid. heavy infection, where more than 25 cys-
ticerci are detected, the carcass should be
controL MEaSurES destroyed and discarded.
• Health education, construction and main- • The use of human faecal sludge as fertilizer
tenance of latrines (human sanitation), should be confined to cultivated fields or
treatment of all human cases. to those on that pigs and cattle will not be
• Compulsory meat inspection and thorough grazed for at least 2 years.
cooking of meat. Cysticerci can be destroyed • Safe disposal of infected carcasses, that is, the
at 57°C. cyst material in the carcass of intermediate
• The infected carcasses could be frozen at hosts should not be made available to forag-
–10°C for at least 10 days, which would kill ing scavengers such as domestic dogs.

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