• Common name: Pork tapeworm
• Intermediate host: Pigs (Intestinal Taeniasis); Man (Cysticercosis)
• Infective stage: Cystecercus cellulosae (Intestinal taeniasis), Embryonated egg (Cystercercosis)
• Mode of transmission: Ingestion of measly pork and/or embryonated eggs (cysticercosis)
• Proglottids: 7-13 lateral branches (Dendritic/finger-like)
• Eggs – Spherical, radially striated, embryonated eggs with oncosphere
