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The document summarizes key information about adult tapeworms and Taenia saginata and Taenia solium specifically. It describes their morphology, lifecycles, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment. The adult worms are flat, ribbon-like, and hermaphroditic. They have a scolex, neck, proglottids and strobila. Taenia saginata infects humans through undercooked beef and Taenia solium through undercooked pork. Symptoms of infection range from asymptomatic to abdominal pain, diarrhea and ne

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Sheine Espino
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