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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Helminths > Platyhelminths > Cestoda > Taenia > Cysticercus

Preferred term

Cysticercus  

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Broader concept

Note

  • infection = CYSTICERCOSIS or NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; coordinate with specific helminth terms (ANTIGENS, HELMINTH, etc.) if pertinent

Scope note

  • The larval form of various tapeworms of the genus Taenia.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under TAENIA 1975-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003552

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