ATLASCENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) PARASITES
      CESTOIDEA Order: Cyclophyllidea

      TAENIA MULTICEPS (COENUROSIS)

      Courtesy of Professor Franco Guarda

      cen1-ic

      Taenia multiceps: dogs are the definitive host: sheep, other mammals and,
      rarely, man are infected by eating embryonated eggs.
      World-wide distribution. The larvae penetrate via oral route and develop
      to the coenurus stage in host's tissues.
      (Brain lesion).


      Courtesy of Professor Franco Guarda

      cen2-ic

      Taenia multiceps: the lesion can be differentiated from the cysticercus larva
      for the presence in the same cyst of hundreds of protoscolices.
      Section of a protoscolex in brain cyst.