by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 16, 2014
Feline Tetrathyridiosis Cats can serve as the second intermediate host of Mesocestoides spp. It is in not known if cats develop infections with this life-cycle stage of the parasite after ingestion of the first intermediate host containing the undescribed first larval...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 16, 2014
Mesocestoides lineatus (Goeze, 1782) Railliet, 1893 Figures 3-6 through 3-9 ETYMOLOGY:Meso = in between & cestoides for cestode; this genus has characteristics that are rather between those of the Pseudophyllidea and the Cyclophyllidea, especially the presence of...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 16, 2014
The Mesocestoididae The Mesocestoididae are parasites in the small intestine of mammals, rarely birds (Rausch, 1994). Two genera, Mesocestoides and Mesogyna, are recognized within this family. The adult is characterized mainly by the possession of a scolex that bears...
