Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jul 26, 2026

09:37
Helminth Collection and Identification from Wildlife
Published on: December 14, 2013
16.9K
Molecular Identification of Zoonotic Tissue-Invasive Tapeworm Larvae Other than Taenia solium in Suspected Human
Dennis Tappe1, Jörg Berkholz2, Uwe Mahlke2
1Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|October 23, 2015
Abstract:
Rarely, zoonotic Taenia species other than Taenia solium cause human cysticercosis. The larval stages are morphologically often indistinguishable. We therefore investigated 12 samples of suspected human cysticercosis cases at the molecular level and surprisingly identified one Taenia crassiceps and one Taenia serialis (coenurosis) infection, which were caused by tapeworm larvae normally infecting rodents and sheep via eggs released from foxes and dogs.

