If you were provided a completely intact adult tapeworm and were asked whether it was Taenia solium or Taenia saginata, what would be the 2 most important criteria that you would use to distinguish between the two? Please be specific about each of the two characteristics, and tell what goes with which species.

An immunosuppressed man has several episodes of pneumonia, intestinal pain, sepsis with gram negative rods, and a history of military service in Southeast Asia 20 years earlier. The most likely cause is infection with:

A physican calls the lab, suspecting their patient has an infection with Loa loa. What time would you recommend the physician to collect blood samples and why?

Identify the helminth in the picture below. Specimen submitted was a skin snip, and patient symptoms were minimal, but started after a safari trip to West Africa. Patient also recalls getting bites multiple times by biting midges.

Eating poorly cooked infected pork can lead to an infection with:

All of the following statements are true of Hymenolepis nana EXCEPT:

Select the oxidant and reductant: Zn + Cl2 –> ZnCl2

Identify any spectator ions (hint: think precipitation reaction):  

Balance the following chemical reaction by adding the coefficients (if the coefficient is “1”, input 1): Ex:  2H2 + 1O2 –> 2H2O [1]HCl –> [3]H2 + [4]Cl2

Your patient is a 22-year-old male who was in a skiing accident.  He currently presents with loss of voluntary movement in his bilateral upper and lower extremities, as well as his trunk.  He has absent pain and temperature sensation in all 4 extremities; however, proprioception, light touch and vibration are normal. What do you think his diagnosis is, and which of the following tracts/pathways is still intact?