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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Helminths > Platyhelminths > Cestoda > Echinococcus > Echinococcus multilocularis

Preferred term

Echinococcus multilocularis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • infection: coordinate (IM) with ECHINOCOCCOSIS (IM) or specifics (IM); infection in humans = ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC

Scope note

  • A north temperate species of tapeworm (CESTODA) whose adult form infects FOXES and wild RODENTS. The larval form can infect humans producing HEPATIC HYDATID CYSTS.

History note

  • 2005

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D048210

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