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  • Title: Asian Taenia saginata: species or strain?
    Author: Fan PC.
    Journal: Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health; 1991 Dec; 22 Suppl():245-50. PubMed ID: 1822898.
    Abstract:
    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 one wild boar and six domestic pigs in Taiwan. It is likely that pigs are the natural intermediate host of Asian Taenia in endemic areas other than Taiwan. Moreover, the cysticerci of Asian Taenia are only found in the livers of the infected animals and have similar morphological characteristics, which are distinguishable from the cysticerci of T. saginata and T. solium. These cysticerci are small in size and armed with two rows of rudimentary hooklets and can develop to maturity in as short a period as 4 weeks. It is possible that Asian Taenia is a different species or at least a different strain.
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