So if your cat requires a flea treatment, she will also need a worm treatment.

This means that flea and tapeworm infections almost always go hand-in-hand. Tapeworm worming for cats most commonly treats Dipylidium caninum and Taenia taeniaformis. Eggs of Dipylidium caninum are eaten by flea larvae. You can occasionally see them on the hair around the anus of your cat or in the faeces. These segments sometimes look like grains of rice and are mobile. They release mature segments (which contain eggs) into the faeces. Tapeworms are long, flat and composed of many individual segments. Similar to roundworms, a worm treatment for cats with tapeworms is important to treat the infected cat and protect others. This means that practically all kittens are infected with roundworms from a very young age and they all require a worm treatment for cats. Toxocara cati can be transmitted to kittens through the milk of their mother even if the mother herself is over the infection. The most common species are Toxocara catiand Toxascaris leonina. Roundworms are very common, particularly in young cats and kittens. Eggs can also be eaten by mice or rats which can infect cats who prey on those rodents. They produce microscopic eggs which are shed in the faeces of infected cats, which presents a danger to other cats as they can be eaten by them. Roundworms are short and have rounded bodies. While dogs need to be treated for tapeworms and nematodes, worming for cats aims at tape and roundworms. Taeniasis (or taeniosis) refers to infection with tapeworms of the genus Taenia (e.g., T solium, T saginata).Worm treatment for cats targets different worms than a wormer for dogs. Cysts due to Echinococcus granulosus are referred to as cystic echinococcosis or hydatid cysts, and cysts due to E multilocularis are referred to as alveolar echinococcosis. Cysts due to Taenia solium within the central nervous system are referred to as neurocysticercosis, and cysts in other locations are termed cysticercosis. Ingested eggs hatch in the intestines and larvae migrate to extra-intestinal tissues, where they encyst. Certain cestodes can also cause extra-intestinal infections. Tapeworms cause intestinal infection in humans when the immature cysticercoid larvae attach to the intestinal mucosa using the scolices, and grow by production of proglottid segments. When mature, these parasites reside in the intestinal tract of definitive carnivorous hosts, and larval cysts are formed in the intermediate hosts. Adult tapeworms usually possess an anterior scolex (head plural 'scolices') that may be modified with structures or organelles that attach to the host. Oxford, UK: Churchill Livingstone 2005:1327-40. Tropical infectious diseases: principles, pathogens and practice. In: Guerrant RL, Walker DH, Weller PF, eds. Oxford, UK: Churchill Livingstone 2005:1304-26. The worms can vary in length from a few millimetres to 25 metres, and can contain thousands of proglottids (tapeworm segments). An infection by parasitic flatworms of the taxonomic class Cestoda.

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