the asian cheetah is known as iranian panther. a four years old female cheetah was killed in a road accident by a truck in abbas abad (biarjamand) county around shahrood city in sem­nan province, central part of iran.  two days after the accident the carcass of animal was autopsied and only five cestodes were obtained from its intestine. in inspection of other or­gans no other helminth was obse...

a case of a 40-year-old female, in whom a 6-meter long worm (taenia saginata) was found in stomach, is reported here. in this patient, t. saginata upward migration of the worm to the stomach, its rare phenomenon, worm mostly seen in the small intestine. this is mainly because of the high gastric acidity. in this patient, we believe proton pump inhibitor (ppi) use caused hypochlorhydria and coex...

A 14-month-old female toddler presented with a 3-day history of pass- ing gravid proglottids of Taenia saginata. Neither she nor her family members had a history of eating raw beef or other raw meat. Single doses of praziquantel and niclosamide were administered. To the best of our knowledge, this is the youngest described patient with T. saginata infection to date.

BACKGROUND Cysticercosis and hydatidosis seriously affect human health and are responsible for considerable economic loss in animal husbandry in non-developed and developed countries. S3Pvac and EG95 are the only field trial-tested vaccine candidates against cysticercosis and hydatidosis, respectively. S3Pvac is composed of three peptides (KETc1, GK1 and KETc12), originally identified in a Taen...

The effect of phenylephrine, an alpha-agonist, on the Ca movements and the influence of removal of external Na+ on the relaxant activity of phenylephrine were examined in the taenia coli of guinea pigs. Phenylephrine (10(-7)-10(-5)M) caused dose-dependent relaxation of the taenia coli contracted by 20 mM KCl in Locke-Ringer solution. Phenylephrine (10(-5) M) suppressed the spike discharges of t...

The region of Balkans is often considered as an ichthyologic "hot spot", with a great number of species and high portion of endemics living in fresh waters in a relatively small area. The Adriatic watershed in Croatia and Herzegovina is inhabited by six spined loach species (genus Cobitis) whose extinction risk estimations were based solely on their extent of occurrence (and/or area of occupanc...

It has been reported that three human Taenia species are distributed in Indonesia: Taenia solium, Taenia asiatica and Taenia saginata. T. asiatica is well known in North Sumatra, especially on Samosir island in Lake Toba. T. solium and T. saginata are known from Bali. T. solium is most serious public health issue in Papua (former Irian Jaya). In this report, we briefly review the present situat...

Taeniasis is prevalent in all regions of Thailand, except the South. Infections were more frequently found in males than females of any age from 7-83 years. Taenia saginata is the most common species throughout the country. Taenia asiatica was reported only in the province of Kanchanaburi in the Central region. Co-infections, with Taenia solium and T. asiatica or T. solium and T. saginata, were...

Gobies and their ectoparasitic monogenean flatworms are promising models for species diversification because of richness. Recent decades have seen the discovery several new Gyrodactylus (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) on European gobies, mostly in sand goby lineage especially eastern Mediterranean. However, fauna other gobies is much less understood. Therefore, we inspected five gobiid (34 specimen...