taeniasis
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Taeniasis is an infection within the intestines by adult tapeworms belonging to the genus Taenia. There are generally no or only mild symptoms. Symptoms may occasionally include weight loss or abdominal pain. Segments of tapeworm may be seen in the stool. Complications of pork tapeworm may include cysticercosis.
Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Taeniasis
- Medical condition (new).image
- Taenia saginata LifeCycle.gif
- Medical condition (new).caption
- The life cycle of Taenia saginata, the beef tapeworm
- Medical condition (new).field
- Infectious disease
- Medical condition (new).symptoms
- None, weight loss, abdominal pain
- Medical condition (new).complications
- Pork tapeworm: cysticercosis
- Medical condition (new).types
- Taenia solium (pork tapeworm), Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm), Taenia asiatica (Asian tapeworm)
- Medical condition (new).causes
- Infection with adult tapeworms
- Medical condition (new).risks
- Eating contaminated undercooked pork or beef
- Medical condition (new).diagnosis
- Examination of stool samples
- Medical condition (new).prevention
- Properly cooking meat
- Medical condition (new).treatment
- Praziquantel, niclosamide
- Medical condition (new).frequency
- 50 million (with cysticercosis)
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Signs and symptoms
- Pork tapeworm
- Beef tapeworm
- Asian tapeworm
- Transmission
- Diagnosis
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Epidemiology
- Regions
- See also
- References
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Taeniasis is an infection within the intestines by adult tapeworms belonging to the genus Taenia. There are generally no or only mild symptoms. Symptoms may occasionally include weight loss or abdominal pain. Segments of tapeworm may be seen in the stool. Complications of pork tapeworm may include cysticercosis.
Types of Taenia that cause infections in humans include Taenia solium (pork tapeworm), Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm), and Taenia asiatica (Asian tapeworm). Taenia saginata is due to eating contaminated undercooked beef while Taenia solium and Taenia asiatica is from contaminated undercooked pork. Diagnosis is by examination of stool samples.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “taeniasis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.