Tapeworms Parasitic Infectious Diseases

Tapeworms Parasitic Infectious Diseases

Tapeworms

Tapeworms, also know as cestodes, cause disease when the adult worms inhabit the digestive tract or when their larva cause cysts in body organs.

See Also:

- Case reports on the disease with images from the Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
- Article by Dominique A Vuitton, MD, PhD.
- Medical and scientific information on the organisms and the diseases they cause.
- Description and links to what the government and doctors have to say about it.
- Article by Imad S Dandan, MD.
- Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
- Factsheet with distribution, clinical findings, treatment, and prevention.
- Article by Derek Linklater, MD.
- Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
- Article by Alia Rai, MD.
- Article by Raquel Mora, MD.
- Article by Thomas P Giordano, MD.
- Research network on the epidemiology of Echinococcosis caused by Echinococcus granulosus and Echinococcus multilocularis in Asia
- Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.
- Article by Enrico Brunetti, MD.
- Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
- Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
- The fish tapeworm. Includes life cycle and images.

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