A British soldier, aged 24, was admitted to hospital on 31st March, 1935, complaining of ' fits Past history.?The patient has 8i years' service in India.In 1931 he was admitted to hospital for pneumonia and was treated for tapeworm during convalescence. He states that at Bareillv he had his first ' fit' while playing football. This was attributed to cardiac irritability of adolescence." Ever si...

Hydatid disease, an endemic in the cattle grazing areas, particularly in the Asian region, is a parasitic infection which is caused by the cestode tapeworm, Echinoccocus granulosus. There is involvement of the intra-abdominal organs apart from the liver, in 10-15% of the cases. We are reporting a case, wherein the appendix was involved with this parasitosis and we have discussed the review of t...

Cysticercosis is a condition that occurs when man is infested by the larvae of Taenia solium, acting as an intermediate host instead of definitive. Oral cysticercosis is a rare event, and it represents a difficulty in clinical diagnosis. A case of oral cysticercosis in a 23-year-old white female who presented a painless swelling in the dorsal portion of the tongue is reported. An excisional bio...

A distinct increase in fox populations, particularly in urban areas, has been observed in Europe. This is of particular concern in endemic regions of the small fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis, the aetiological agent of human alveolar echinococcosis. Novel tools have facilitated the investigation of the ecology of urban foxes and have demonstrated the urban wildlife cycle of E. multiloc...

I ‘ man, hydatid disease is caused by the larval stage of a small tapeworm of dogs and other canines. Most human infections are from Echinococcus granulosus and are associated with the raising of sheep and cattle, the presence of domestic dogs, and the lack of proper health controls. The lungs are involved in 20 percent ofthe patients. The following is an uncommon presentation of pulmonary hyda...

The tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta is a chronic parasite living in the small intestine of rats, mice and humans. The aim of this study was to determine histopathological changes in the rat intestine during experimental hymenolepidosis. Our results showed that in rats infected with H. diminuta slight changes occurred in the length of the villus and crypts in different parts of the digestive tract...

played an important role in causing the excystment of the cysticercoids. But on the other hand, it is necessary to examine what effect is exerted by the osmotic pressure in the alimentary tract of the chicken upon the excystment. Up to the present time, as to the excystment of the tapeworm bladderworm, only the effect of the digestive juice has been examined but no study on the effect of the os...