by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 16, 2014
FELINE SPARGANOSIS Cats can serve to also support the plerocercoid larval stage of Spirometra spp. acting in this case as the paratenic host rather than the final host of the infection. Infection with this larval stage often goes by the name sparganosis. Plerocercoids...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 16, 2014
Other Species of Diphyllobothrium and related Genera Besides other species of Diphyllobothrium that occur in marine mammals and fish-eating birds are species representative of other genera: These genera include Ligula, Digramma, Hexagonoporus, Diplogonoporus,...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 16, 2014
Diphyllobothriumlatum (Linnaeus, 1758) Cobbold, 1858 Figs 3-1 through 3-3 ETYMOLOGY:Di = two; phyllos = leaf, and bothrium = groove; along with latum from the Latin Lumbrici lati which was the term the Romans used to describe all tapeworms (as opposed to...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 16, 2014
The Pseudophyllidea The Pseudophyllidea is a group of tapeworms whose adults are most commonly found in fish. The group is characterized by having a scolex that usually is armed with two bothria, slits on the dorsal and ventral aspect. The genital pores in this group...
