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Infection is by ingestion of eggs

Oncosphere hatch in intestine, reaches blood circulation and is distributed by different organs, mainly CNS where develop to coenuros

Multiple scolices burst from inner surface of cyst wall

Cyst resembles that of a cysticercus (Cysticercus cerebralis). It is filled with fluid, semi-transparent and glistening white

Cysticercus possesses unusual asexual multiplication, forming a bladder (or coenurus) which give rise to hundreds of daughter protoscoleces directly from its inner wall. It therefore differs from a hydatid cyst.