Drawing of Cysticerus cellulosae: Left one from the pig showing an invaginated scolex. Right one from human intestine showing the evaginated scolex.
Cysticercus (pl. cysticerci) is a scientific name given to the young tapeworms (larvae) belonging to the genus Taenia. It is a small, sac-like vesicle resembling a bladder; hence, it is also known as bladder worm. It is filled with fluid, in which the main body of the larva, called scolex (which will eventually form the head of the tapeworm), resides. It normally develops from the eggs, which are ingested by the intermediate hosts, such as pigs and cattle. The tissue infection is called cysticercosis. Inside such hosts, they settle in the muscles. When humans eat raw or undercooked pork or beef that is contaminated with cysticerci, the larvae grow into adult worms inside the intestine. Under certain circumstances, specifically for the pork tapeworm, the eggs can be accidentally eaten by humans through contaminated foodstuffs. In such case, the eggs hatch inside the body, generally moving to muscles as well as inside the brain. Such brain infection can lead to a serious medical condition called neurocysticercosis.[1] This disease is the leading cause of acquired epilepsy.[2]
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solium as Cysticercus cellulosae, that of beef tapeworm (T. saginata) as Cysticercus bovis, that of sheep tapeworm (T. ovis) as Cysticercus ovis, that...
membrane of the cysticercus soon develops numerous protoscolices (small scolices) that are invertedly attached to the inner surface. The cysticercus of T. saginata...
When the worm reaches the liver the larva transforms into a cysticercus form. This cysticercus will stay in the liver for about two to four weeks, then move...
colonised by the larval stage, the cysticercus, from undercooked pork or other meat. Each microscopic cysticercus is oval in shape, containing an inverted...
tissues, where they further develop into larvae called cysticerci. The cysticercus larva completes development in about 2 months. It is semitransparent...
Macrostomus cysticercus is a species of dance flies, in the fly family Empididae. Smith, Kenneth G. V. (1963). "The Empididae (Diptera) collected on the...
is the larval stage of certain tapeworms, similar in appearance to a cysticercus, but having the scolex filling completely the enclosing cyst. In tapeworm...
cyst created by the oncosphere. In order to become an adult tapeworm, a cysticercus must then be consumed by its definitive host (in either raw or undercooked...
Southeast Asia – which is contaminated with the infective larva called cysticercus. Cysticercus develops into adult tapeworm in human intestine, from where it...
It is unclear if T. asiatica can cause cysticercosis. In pigs, the cysticercus can produce cysticercosis. Cysts develop in liver and lungs. (T. saginata...
can take various forms, for example, the hydatid cyst, strobilocercus, cysticercus or cysticercoid. Plerocercoid Vuitton, Dominique A.; McManus, Donald...
another part of the body such as the muscle. Here it encysts, forming a cysticercus. The parasite completes its life cycle when the intermediate host passes...
tapeworms found in the human intestinal tract and the invaginated heads of Cysticercus cellulosae in pigs. Goeze, J. A. E. 1776. Verzeichnisse der Namen von...
uncinata Body cavity, extracellular Horizontal, to a second host Cestoda Cysticercus mirabilis Body cavity, extracellular Horizontal, to a second host...
intestinal wall and forms the metacestode. An example is either cysticercoid, cysticercus, or a hydatid cyst. The definitive host is infected when the metacestode...
during sexual reproduction, include dogs, foxes, and other canids. The cysticercus, the larval form, travels and persists in the liver for 18 – 30 days...
to peritonitis. Due to the coenurus of taenia serialis as well as the cysticercus of taenia crassiceps central nervous disorders (similar to coenurosis...
Humboldt University of Berlin with a thesis on the immune response to Cysticercus bovis infestation under experimental and natural pathogen exposure with...
causative. Parasites are also a significant cause of cancer in animals. Cysticercus fasciolaris, the larval form of the common tapeworm of the cat, Taenia...
Prayer and Divine Aid, 1825 'Cataract', London Medical Gazette, 1829 'Cysticercus Cellulosæ on the Sclerotica', London Medical Gazette, 1838 and 1840 'One...
transitional and calcified) are associated with epileptic seizures. Thus, anti-cysticercus treatment helps by getting rid of it thus lowers the risk of recurrence...
new tests for screening anthelminthic drugs (filariasis, hookworms, cysticercus). From 1960 to 1967, Rohde was a lecturer at the University of Malaya...
Neamț slaughterhouse from 1905. During this period, he discovered the cysticercus of Taenia saginata in veal. From 1910 to 1912, he pursued specialized...
1909 M. barueri Smith, 1962 M. ciliaticosta Rafael & Cumming, 2006 M. cysticercus Smith, 1963 M. digitatus Smith, 1962 M. distinctipennis Smith, 1962 M...
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