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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit comments - comment history - watch comments · refresh this page) I think that it should be mentioned how to get rid of tapeworms, especially since the products to do it in pets (dogs and cats) is now over the counter and available without going to the veterinarian. Treatment: (generic Droncit) called praziquantel as the active ingredient. 67.142.130.21 17:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)Francie |
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What is the lifespan of the different species of tapeworms? How long do they take to mature and how long can they live outside of a host?
I remember reading about what I thought was more than just an urban myth: pills sold as diet drugs that were really just a coating around a live tapeworm, very effective in weight loss up until inexplicable death. Anybody have any information on this (or the ability to tell me it's bull) that could maybe be added to the article? I found it awfully interesting. --128.227.95.149 07:08, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Actually, you are right. The FDA took it off the "market" because it caused inexplicable death.--71.156.121.156 01:21, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Are vertebrates actually the only taxonmic group that are hosts for adult tapeworms? --Mperkins 05:04, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC) hg this site says that tape worms can affect the eyes, brain and muscles aswell. can someone who knows more about them than me verify this? --hamilt0n 01:04, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
My roomate and I were watching a documentary about parasites on the Health Channel once, and it mentioned worms live right underneath your skin, and could actually move into your eye. However, these were not tapeworms. If I find the documentary or the name of that worm, I will cite it. Unfortunately, at this time, I cannot as I watched it more out of boredom than interest. -- Mellesime 06:22, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
UPDATE: According to this site you were correct. -- Mellesime 06:37, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Leading genus section
Much of this information is wrong. Even if ite were correct, it wouldn't belong in this article, and should be put in Taenia instead. I've bolded some of the things I know are wrong for sure and put the reason in parentheses.
- In man, the great source of tapeworm is measly pork, eaten uncooked or but partly cooked. The pork tapeworm, Tænia solium, is more common in Europe than in North America. Linnaeus named it solium because it is generally found alone in an infected patient. The farther from the head, the larger is the proglottid (detachable segment). Each proglottid is hermaphroditic and may produce ova ("eggs") when mature.
"Tænia saginata, the beef tapeworm, is common all over the world. Cattle are the intermediary hosts; it is transmitted through imperfectly cooked veal or beef. Its length is about 12 to 25 feet (4 to 8 meters) in its adult stage, which often occurs in man.
- The dog tapeworm, Tænia echinococcus (echinococcus is a genus), seldom exceeds 1/4-inch (0.635 cm) in length. Usually, its length is about 4 or 5 mm. It has only four segments, including the head. The final segment, when sexually mature, equals in length the three anterior ones, and contains as many as 5000 eggs. Man may serve as the intermediary host and become infected with hydatid cysts (cysticerci). In its larval condition, it is, perhaps, more fatally injurious to man than all of the other entozoa put together.
- Tænia nana (this actually goes in the genus Hymenolepis) is frequently found in man in Egypt and Sicily. It is the smallest tapeworm to be found in man in its adult stage. Tænia cucumerina infests the dog and the cat; the flea is host to its larva or cysticercus.
- The word tænia is from the Latin, tænia, Greek, tainia, "a ribbon." Some generic words have been created that apply to tapeworms.
- Tenia - Same as Tænia.
- Tenioid - Resembling a tenia, or tapeworm.
- Tænicide, tæniacide, tenicide - Any substance which kills tapeworms.
- Tænifuge, tenifuge - Any substance used to expel tapeworms from the body.
- Tenifugal - Expelling tapeworms.
- Tæniasis, teniasis - The presence of tapeworms in the body.
- Interestingly, in an allied genus, a tapeworm Bothriocephalus latus (Diphyllobothrium latum (D. latum is a pseudophyllid, not a cyclophyllid. They're not closely related at all.) is sometimes 25 feet (8 meters) long, nearly an inch (2.540 cm) broad, and may have 4000 joints (segments, proglottids). The plerocercoid or infective stage is harbored in fish and probably in a mollusk. It may be found (somewhat smaller) in the dog and the cat. It is said to be the largest tapeworm that lives in man.
May 2nd, 2005 @ 05:07 GMT--- All of the information that was submitted in Leading genus was gleaned from a number of reference books. Those books were compiled in the United states from about 1900 to about 1980, so the terminology and the taxonomy may have changed over time. One book is an old medical dictionary, another book is a regular dictionary, etc.
I'm sorry that things turned out to be incorrect. 05:14 GMT.
- They went ahead and re-named the okra plant the Abelmoschus esculentus because that is "right", not "wrong."
May 4th, 2005 at 10:08 GMT or Z or UCT
- 11:00 GMT or Z or UCT (Added) New, and I knew. 11:03 GMT or Z or UCT
The words in Leading genus had been "correct" when they were written down, but they are now "incorrect" words.
Things are being shifted and re-named.
As for me, I'd rather say millibar than hectopascal.
May 2nd, 2005 06:25 GMT
Scientific terms are subject to being changed from time to time, so that fact makes it risky for the contributors to Wikipedia when submitting blurbs into certain articles.
I had taken the words Leading genus directly from a tome.
Basically, I had simply read the material and strung together the information. The medical dictionary still says that the dog tapeworm is Tænia echinococcus, of course. It was written prior to World War Two, though.
May 2nd, 2005 at 13:45 GMT.
[edit] Tapeworms slither?
I removed this from the bottom of the Home Remedies section:
- Some places in South America leave a steak out for a couple of days until it starts to smell. They would then have you place your head over the steak with your mouth open. Eventually, the tapeworm will slither right out your mouth.
Isn't this either some well-hidden vandalism or a complete myth? I don't think tapeworms can slither. And I don't think a place can leave a steak out/////// hehe haha
Home Remedies- LOL!--71.156.121.156 01:20, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Michelle Niles
Not sure if this info is true. COuld someone please check.Dlohcierekim 00:15, 3 May 2006 (UTC) TAPEWORMS DO NOT SLITHER, BUT THEY CAN MOVE A BIT....TRAVELING SHORT DISTANCES
[edit] Tapeworm
I don't think tapeworm can slither but i know that they take food from your body and like slowly kill you. My sis thinks i have tape worm. D=
[edit] Symptoms
Shouldn't the symptoms a host exhibits, both human and animal, be listed here? -- Mellesime 06:18, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Types of Tapeworm
Added a types of tapeworm section. -- Mellesime 07:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tapeworms DONT slither
Bold text Tape worms do not Slither. They move like regular worms do. Tapeworms arch there backs up and down to move. This information is correct. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BRiANNA PERFECTLY UNPERFECT (talk • contribs) 17:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Vandalism?
The passage:
Tapeworms can cause additional death to animals. Starting with dogs especially toy breeds , the worm starts at the stomach wrapping its enormous build around the stomach then moving on to the heart. If they don't get treatment they die within 27 hours of infection.
seems hyperbolic - not to mention ungrammatical.
--TommyLeeBennett 03:22, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
