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Taenia
Published in Dongyou Liu, Handbook of Foodborne Diseases, 2018
The genus Taenia (derived from Greek tainia, meaning “ribbon,” “bandage,” or “stripe”) covers a group of tapeworms whose ribbon-like adult resides in the intestines of carnivore or omnivore (causing intestinal taeniasis), and whose cyst-like larva (metacestode) lives in the internal organs of herbivores or omnivores, including humans (causing cysticercosis or neurocysticercosis). Of the 45 Taenia species described to date, three (i.e., Taenia solium [pork tapeworm], Taenia saginata [beef tapeworm], and Taenia asiatica [Asian tapeworm]) are linked to human diseases. Specifically, while these three tapeworms are associated with largely asymptomatic intestinal taeniasis in humans, T. solium is responsible for cysticercosis (cysticercus cellulosae) in pigs as well as humans, T. saginata for cysticercosis (cysticercus bovis) in cattle, and T. asiatica for cysticercosis (cysticercus viscerotropica) in pigs (Table 65.1).
Taenia
Published in Dongyou Liu, Laboratory Models for Foodborne Infections, 2017
Of the 45 described Taenia species, three [i.e., Taenia solium (pork tapeworm), Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm), and Taenia asiatica (Asian tapeworm)] are known to infect humans. Indeed, as the only definitive host for these three species, human infection with the adult worms leads to intestinal parasitism, which is largely asymptomatic. However, the larva (metacestode) of T. solium causes cysticercosis (cysticercus cellulosae) in pigs and humans, that of T. saginata causes cysticercosis (cysticercus bovis) in cattle, and that of T. asiatica causes cysticercosis (cysticercus viscerotropica) in pigs (Table 49.1).
Development of multi-epitope chimeric vaccine against Taenia solium by exploring its proteome: an in silico approach
Published in Expert Review of Vaccines, 2020
Rimanpreet Kaur, Naina Arora, Majeed Abdulwahid Jamakhani, Shelvia Malik, Pramod Kumar, Farhan Anjum, Shweta Tripathi, Amit Mishra, Amit Prasad
From the above immunoinformatics prediction, antigenic proteins of T. solium were identified and they were subjected to blast, against human and other helminths parasite such as Taenia saginata, Taenia asiatica, Taenia saginata-asiatica, Echinococcus granulosus, and all the species of Schisctosoma to identify T. solium unique proteins. The proteins showing more than 50% identity with others were discarded, whereas for E. granulosus the cutoff was set at 60% as T. solium showed maximum resemblance with this particular parasite and the rest of proteins were taken for further studies.