Tapepen Bull

The bovine tapeworm is a type of parasite that can cause serious illness in humans and animals. This parasite belongs to the cestodes and has a long ribbon-like segment. This worm lives in the intestines of humans or animals and feeds on the blood of the host. It is usually transmitted through contaminated food and water. The bovine tapeworm is a small parasitic worm. Its size ranges from 2 to 8 mm. It has an elongated body, segmented and covered with thin round leaf-like chitinous plates. On the sides, between the plates, there are triangular, pointed papillae. The head, adjacent to the beginning of the cord of the cylindrical head, has a wide hood with a two-layer mesococculus located on the sides to capture and digest the intestinal mucosa. A cord-like branched cord with hooks for fixation extends from the tube. In the back of the body there is a uterus in which cestids (embryos) are formed, from which new chains are then formed when they reach the required size for fixation in the intestinal lumen of the owner himself - the bull. The length of cestids reaches 25 cm, they have a complex cysticercoid with a thick neck, which keeps the entire organism in constant trophic connection with the intestine of its new host. Parasites can be most active between October and January, when they look for new hosts. They die 4 weeks after infection. In the past, schistosomiasis was common throughout the world, although it has been eradicated from most developed countries due to good sanitary housing and public transport systems. Currently, there are still foci of this infection, especially in agricultural regions,