Taenia Asiatica

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Taenia asiatica is commonly known as Asian taenia or Asian tapeworm and is a parasitic tapeworm of humans and pigs. It is one of the three species of Taenia that infect humans and causes taeniasis. Discovered only in 1980s from Taiwan and other East Asian countries, it is notoriously similar to Taenia saginata that it was believed to be a slightly different strain. But the taxonomic consensus turns out to be that it is a unique species.