Question

Visit the following links, associated with the television show Monsters Inside Me, and then complete the assignment below. Adopt the first three parasites from the Parasite Pet Shop by putting the stages of their life cycle in order. First review the Meet the Parasite link and then watch the video clips. This will help you understand, and correctly complete, the life cycle of each parasite. You can also find these links on the Meet the Microbes: Eukaryotes Lecture Main Page. Ctrl+click to follow the links below.

1. Meet the Pork Tape Worm

Video Clips “Pork Tape Worm” & “Pork Tape Worm In Brain”

1. Disease / Medical Condition: pork tapeworm
2. How do humans get contract disease (i.e. how is it transmitted)? undercooked pork that contains the cysts

3. Signs and symptoms of disease: you can have seizures coma hallucinations or possibly even death
4. Describe the course of the disease: they get infected in the human gut the cysts hatch into adult tapeworms where they can grow up to several metres long the adult worms lay eggs that are passed in human feces if a pig then eats the feces the eggs grow into cysts in its muscle tissue and the life cycle repeats
5. How can this infection be prevented in humans?
6. Type of parasite (bacteria, protozoan, fungus, helminth, insect, virus):
7. Scientific name of parasite (properly formatted):
8. How does this parasite evade the host’s immune system?
9. List the order in which you placed the life cycle circles in the Adopt a Pet Parasite game (There is a sentence associated with each of the 4 circles.):

Answer 1

Pork tape worm

1.diseases called cysticercosis and in brain called cysticercosis of brain

Signs and symptoms :

Increased intra cranial pressure

Psychiatric disturbances

Hydrocephalus

Meningo encephalitis

Behavioral disorders

Aphasia

Visual disturbances etc

2.it is transmitted through oral route ,bu improperly cooked pork meat

3.egg passed in faces ingested by pig and after eating improperly cooked meat the embrophore enter inthe duodenum and ruptured and oncosphere is released .the oncosphere penetrates the wall of intestine via systemic circulation reach the striated muscles and called cysticercus cellulosae in muscles ,scolex exavaginates and anchors the intestine,adult worm in gravida small intestine proglotids of man released through faeces and ingestion by pork cycle repeat.

4 .it can be prevented by cooking the meat properly and avoid the pork meat consumption

5.tape worm is a helminthic infection

6.scientific name is tenia sodium

7.it is a intestinal parasite and large in size and no effect of immune system to words