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Preferred Name

Taenia solium
Synonyms

Pork Tapeworm

Taenia solium

Cysticercus cellulosae

TAENIA SOLIUM

Definitions

A species of parasitic cestodes in the genus Taenia that is acquired through the ingestion of infected porcine tissue. Humans are the definitive host of the adult cestodes, resulting in taeniasis. Taenia solium also causes cysticercosis, a tissue infection caused by larval cysts, which results when humans serve as an intermediate host.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C125961

ALT_DEFINITION

Any cestode parasite that can be assigned to the species Taenia solium.

code

C125961

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C66830

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C61410

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C85491

Contributing_Source

CDISC

DEFINITION

A species of parasitic cestodes in the genus Taenia that is acquired through the ingestion of infected porcine tissue. Humans are the definitive host of the adult cestodes, resulting in taeniasis. Taenia solium also causes cysticercosis, a tissue infection caused by larval cysts, which results when humans serve as an intermediate host.

FULL_SYN

Pork Tapeworm

Taenia solium

Cysticercus cellulosae

TAENIA SOLIUM

label

Taenia solium

Preferred_Name

Taenia solium

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C125961

Semantic_Type

Animal

UMLS_CUI

C0039251

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C125925

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