Taenia saginata in the Small Intestine

Etymologia: Taenia saginata

Oral expulsion of Taenia saginata.

We report a 25-year-old woman who presented with abdominal pain, vomiting and fever, and had an epigastric lump on examination. At laparotomy she was diagnosed to have acute segmental jejunitis. Three days postoperative, she vomited a 2-meter-long tapeworm (Taenia saginata), a rare route of expulsion.

Asian Taenia saginata: species or strain?

Asian Taenia has a special epidemiological pattern. Many people eat raw and/or undercooked pork and pig viscera more often than that of cattle and acquire a T. saginata-like tapeworm infection. The pig has been found to be the most favorable laboratory intermediate host for four geographical strains of Asian Taenia. Numerous pinpoint cysticerci have been found in naturally infected livers of on...

History of Taenia saginata Tapeworms in Northern Russia

The golden hamster as a definitive host of Taenia solium and Taenia saginata.

Immunosuppressants have been extensively used to increase the susceptibility of various laboratory animals to several species of nematodes (Campbell , 1963; 1968; Campbell & Collette, 1962 ; Di Netta , Katz & Campbell , 1972 ; Miller, 1966; Mougeot & Lancastre, 1970 ; Parker, 1961; Ritterson, 1959 ; Wiest, 1972; Wakelin, 1970). Only a few of these compounds have been used to increase susceptibi...