A List of Cestode Parasites From California Mammals

Vaccination against cestode parasites.

Cestode parasites are important because they cause production losses, particularly in the sheep, beef and pig meat industries, and because some species are zoonotic parasites which cause serious disease in humans. Research on the development of vaccines to prevent infection with cestode parasites has concentrated on the taeniid cestodes. Two strategies can be adopted for vaccine research: vacci...

On cestode and digenean parasites of Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) from the Rietvlei Dam, South Africa.

Sharptooth catfish, Clarias gariepinus, from the Rietvlei Dam near Pretoria, South Africa were examined for internal platyhelminth parasites. Two adult cestodes, Polyonchobothrium clarias (stomach) (prevalence 71%, mean intensity = 5, n = 7) and Proteocephalus glanduliger (anterior intestine) (prevalence 14%, mean intensity = 2, n = 7), were found in the gut while metacercariae of one larval di...

A check list of the helminths of guineafowls (Numididae) and a host list of these parasites.

Published and personal records have been compiled into a reference list of the helminth parasites of guineafowls. Where data on other avian hosts was available these have been included for completeness' sake and to give an indication of host range. The parasite list for the Helmeted guineafowls, Numida meleagris, includes five species of acanthocephalans, all belonging to a single genus, three ...

A checklist of the helminth parasites of marine mammals from Argentina.

Based on published records and new data accumulated by the authors, we generated a list of the helminth parasites of marine mammals from off the coast of Argentina. We found 49 reports of helminths parasitizing cetaceans and pinnipeds from Argentina from 1952 to 2015. The list includes 54 taxa of helminths (8 acanthocephalans, 24 nematodes, 11 cestodes and 11 trematodes) associated with 18 spec...

A new cestode, Raillietina (Raillietina) oligocapsulata n. sp., and R. (R.) demerariensis (Daniels, 1895) from Venezuelan mammals.