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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Helminths > Platyhelminths > Cestoda > Mesocestoides

Preferred term

Mesocestoides  

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Note

  • infection: coordinate with CESTODE INFECTIONS; coordinate with specific helminth terms (ANTIGENS, HELMINTH, etc.) if pertinent

Scope note

  • A genus of tapeworm, containing several species, found as adults in birds and mammals. The larvae or cysticercoid stage develop in invertebrates. Human infection has been reported and is probably acquired from eating inadequately cooked meat of animals infected with the second larval stage known as the tetrahythridium.

History note

  • 91(87); was see under CESTODA 1987-90; was MESOCESTROIDES see under CESTODA 1986

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008645

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