Cestodes Lab Manual

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pores opening from side to side in adjacent proglottids. The gravid segment contains the uterus with five to 14 lateral branches. The egg is spherical, 81 to 48 um, with radially-striated shells, and oncosphere with hooks. Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm) Adults measure five to 26 meters long. There are approximately 1000 to 2000 broad segments with genital pores and follicles. The uterus has 15 to 20 lateral branches. The scolex contains four prominent suckers but without a well- developed rostellum and hooks. The ova cannot be distinguished from the ova of Taenia solium. The Life Cycle of Taenia spp. (The Pork and Beef Tapeworms of Humans) ‘Eggs (or proglottids containing ess) are passed in the host's feces Names Section: | e ‘ection: | Date Performed: eS eS Rick At the end of the experiment, the students will be able to describe the most commonly encountered cestodes; and describe the cestode’s life cycle, encompassing its transmis the diseases it causes and the preventive meas! application, Prepared slides of é Diphyllobothrium latum (gr _ Taenia solium (scolex, prog! a saginata (ripe or § ‘hinococeus granulosus:

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