Directory of Tapeworms Resources

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

Resources in This Category

• Alveolar Hydatid Disease - CDC

  http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/echinococcosis/
  Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.

• Bad Bug Book: Diphyllobothrium spp.

  http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/CausesOfIllnessBadBugBook/ucm070785.htm
  Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations and outbreaks.

• CDC: Cysticercosis

  http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/cysticercosis/
  Fact sheets and articles on this disease caused by tapeworms.

• Diphyllobothriasis - CDC DPDx

  http://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/diphyllobothriasis/index.html
  Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.

• eMedicine - Cystic Echinococcosis

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/216432-overview
  Article by Enrico Brunetti, MD.

• eMedicine - Cysticercosis

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/215589-overview
  Article by Thomas P Giordano, MD.

• eMedicine - Cysticercosis

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/781845-overview
  Article by Ryan Tenzer, MD.

• eMedicine - Diphyllobothriasis

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/216089-overview
  Article by Derek Linklater, MD.

• eMedicine - Diphyllobothrium Latum Infection

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/997314-overview
  Article by Alia Rai, MD.

• eMedicine - Echinococcosis

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/214349-overview
  Article by Dominique A Vuitton, MD, PhD.

• eMedicine - Hydatid Cysts

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/178648-overview
  Article by Imad S Dandan, MD.

• eMedicine - Tapeworm Infestation

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/786292-overview
  Article by Raquel Mora, MD.

• eMedicine: Neurocysticercosis

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1168656-overview
  Article by Mohammed J Zafar, MD, FAAN.

• Hymenolepiasis - CDC DPDx

  http://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/hymenolepiasis/index.html
  Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.

• MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Taeniasis

  https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001391.htm
  Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.

• Medmicro: Cestodes

  http://www.pathobio.sdu.edu.cn/sdjsc/engparabook/ch089.htm
  Medical and scientific information on tapeworms and the diseases they cause.

• Neurocysticercosis

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2360956/pdf/postmedj00090-0003.pdf
  Comprehensive information on the most common parasitic disease of the central nervous system caused by the larval form of the tapeworm Taenia solium.

• NHS Choices: Tapeworm Infections

  http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Tapeworm-infections/
  Provides information on these parasites that can live in the bowel. Includes details of symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, complications and prevention.

• Universität Zürich: Institut für Parasitologie

  http://www.paras.uzh.ch/research/helminthology/research-1/echinococcosis.html
  Research network on the epidemiology of Echinococcosis caused by Echinococcus granulosus and Echinococcus multilocularis in Asia.

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