Taenia saginata (Beef Tapeworm or the Unarmed Tapeworm) is a tapeworm that infects humans by eating insufficiently cooked beef eg; raw beef filet as in for example carpaccio. This tapeworm can live up to 25 years in the human body and can cause symptoms such as stomach pain, nausea, loss of appetite, emaciation, dizziness, diarrhea, vomiting, anal itching and the tapeworm segments can sometimes be seen directly in the feces.
Taenia Solium (Pork Tapeworm or Armed Tapeworm) is a type of tapeworm with a circle of hooks in the front. It is common in central America, southern Asia and Africa. It can be transmitted through larvae in undercooked pork and through eggs by poor hygiene and the worm can become 2-7 meters long in the intestines.
Strongyloides (Dwarf tapeworm) is a roundworm that mainly occurs in tropical areas of the world; southeastern USA, Central and South America, Africa and in Asia but also in southern Europe.
This parasite enters through the skin
Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm) is the most common worm infection in Europe and is most common with young school children and their families. It only spreads between humans, no pets will get infected by this parasite.
Ascaris lumbricoides (Roundworm) is one of the most common parasites in the world. According to the CDC, between 800 million and 1.2 billion people are estimated to have a roundworm infection globally today. It is in general not contagious from human to human. The incubation time from getting an infection through ingestion of an egg to having an adult worm in your body is approximately 8 weeks.
Trichuris Trichiura (whipworm) is one of the main worms affecting the intestines, together with hookworm and Ascaris. According to the CDC approximately 795 million people currently are infected with the whipworm globally.
Hymenolepis Nana is the smallest of all tapeworms and is sometimes called the Dwarf Tapeworm. It is spread on a global level including Central America, the USA, Russia, India, Argentina and many other places though we see clients from Middle East and Europe having it more often than from other locations. This parasite does not need an intermediate host.
Dvärgbandmasken är den vanligaste förekommande bandmasken hos människa och förekommer i hela världen så som i ex; södra Europa och Sydamerika – men främst i utvecklingsländer där den också kan spridas genom gnagares avföring.
Echinococcus granulosus (hundens dvärgbandmask) är en liten bandmask (3-6 mm) som infekterar människans tunntarm. Den förekommer i hela världen och smittar främst genom förorenade livsmedel eller förorenat vatten med maskägg där hundar rör sig fritt (gatuhundar) och i länder med sämre vattenrening.
Hookworms are relatively small up to 1 cm, mainly occurring in tropical zones such as countries in Central and South America, Africa and Southeast Asia. Hookworms can enter the human skin directly in connection to walking barefoot from where it makes its way through the human skin through the blood circulation to the lungs where it is coughed up, swallowed and once in the intestine it burrows into the intestinal lining where it feeds on blood.
Diphyllobothrium latum, (Broad fish tapeworm) is one of the largest tapeworms (up to 9 meters) that infects the human intestine through ingestion of insufficiently cooked (or raw) fish and fish roe. In Northern Europe fish pinworms are relatively common in freshwater and brackish water fish such as wild salmon, tench, perch and pike. In some cases, the parasite has also been found in char and trout. This tapeworm can also spread to the liver and gallbladder once it has infected a human.
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