ABSTRACT
Taenia solium (pork tapeworm) is a zoonotic cestode that typically involves humans as definitive host (after consumption of raw or poorly cooked pork containing T. solium larva/cysticercus, leading to intestinal taeniasis) and pigs as intermediate host (due to ingestion of T. solium eggs discharged by infected humans, leading to cysticercosis). However, accidental ingestion of T. solium eggs via contaminated food/water or fecal-oral autoinfection by humans may result in muscular, ocular, and neurocysticercosis, the latter of which accounts for 60%–90% of cases and contributes to late-onset epilepsy and possible death.
