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State of the Art of Taenia solium as Compared to Taenia asiatica

Three species of tapeworms infect humans in their adult stage (Taenia solium, Taenia saginata and Taenia asiatica). The 3 are flat, opaque white or yellowish, and exceptional long segmented parasites, measuring 1 to 12 m in their adult stage. In this review, the development of the knowledge regardin...

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Autor principal: Flisser, Ana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3587748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23467388
http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2013.51.1.43
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description Three species of tapeworms infect humans in their adult stage (Taenia solium, Taenia saginata and Taenia asiatica). The 3 are flat, opaque white or yellowish, and exceptional long segmented parasites, measuring 1 to 12 m in their adult stage. In this review, the development of the knowledge regarding the first species, mainly focused on understanding how the larval stage or cysticercus is transmitted to humans, is described. The second species is a cosmopolitan parasite that only causes taeniosis and not cysticercosis; therefore, it will not be included. Information on the third species, which is presently being produced, since this species was recognized as such only at the end of the 20th century, will be discussed at the end of this review.
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spelling pubmed-35877482013-03-06 State of the Art of Taenia solium as Compared to Taenia asiatica Flisser, Ana Korean J Parasitol Articles from Symposium on Asian Taenia (October 2011, Osong, Korea) Three species of tapeworms infect humans in their adult stage (Taenia solium, Taenia saginata and Taenia asiatica). The 3 are flat, opaque white or yellowish, and exceptional long segmented parasites, measuring 1 to 12 m in their adult stage. In this review, the development of the knowledge regarding the first species, mainly focused on understanding how the larval stage or cysticercus is transmitted to humans, is described. The second species is a cosmopolitan parasite that only causes taeniosis and not cysticercosis; therefore, it will not be included. Information on the third species, which is presently being produced, since this species was recognized as such only at the end of the 20th century, will be discussed at the end of this review. The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2013-02 2013-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3587748/ /pubmed/23467388 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2013.51.1.43 Text en © 2013, Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3587748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23467388
http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2013.51.1.43
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