The Phylum Platyhelminthes is divided into two groups: cestodes (tapeworms) and trematodes (flukes). Tapeworms live in vertebrate intestines, their larval forms can be found the flesh of animals that these eat. adult tapeworm has no digestive tract instead absorbs nutrients through its body surface. worm's head, or scolex, a mechanism for attaching to host's intestinal wall. Knowledge basic epi...

background : ligulae intestinalis is a parasitic cestode, which has the economic-health importance in fishery industries. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of this parasite in mazandaran. the effects of habitat temperature and kind of pool (sandy-cement) were considered as well. methods : in this study, 103 fish samples were obtained in all stages; the samples (male and fema...

After a full discussion of the many attempts that have been made in recent years to formulate a working classification of the Cestoda, the author of this book suggests still another. He divides the Class into tw? Orders, Cestodaria and Eucestoda, which has the merit of simplicity and consistency, in that it makes a clear division between the Monozootic and Polyzootic cestodes, and which consequ...

Between 1985 and 1988, the cestodes of 1,252 wild birds (174 species) from the Ivory Coast (West Africa) were collected and studied. Of these birds, 15.7% were parasitized by an estimated 95-100 species of tapeworms, 55 of them having been determined or described. Most of the parasites were found in new hosts, and numerous new geographical records are reported. In general, both the prevalence a...

Canids are reservoir for some zoonoses helminthic disease. They are one of main public health problem. Theaim of this study was to ascertain frequency of gastrointestinal helminthic infection of stray dogs in Zabol city,southeaster of Iran. In this descriptive study, 30 stray dogs were euthanized, intestine was removed by necropsy.Then, the intestines was opened by scalpel and their contents pa...

Taenia multiceps and Taenia hydatigena are widely distributed tapeworms of canids. Due to a lack of genetic information on these two parasites in China, in this study we analyzed six coenurus cerebralis and two cysticercus tenuicollis cysts from goats or sheep in Inner Mongolia, northern China by amplifying three mitochondrial genes (cox1, nad4, and cytb). Two haplotypes were obtained at each l...