The class Cestoda consists of long, flat, ribbonlike worms that are commonly called tapeworms. Tapeworms are obligatory parasites, ones that cannot survive independent of a host, that live in the intestines of vertebrate hosts. They form an extremely...

The beef tapeworm, Taneia saginata, has cattle as the intermediate host and humans as the final host. Cattle are infected by grazing on pasture recently spread with infected sewage or drinking infected water. Human infection is from ingesting the...

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Subclass Cestodaria Amphilinidea Gyrocotylidea Subclass Eucestoda Aporidea Caryophyllidea Cyclophyllidea Diphyllidea Lecanicephalidea Litobothridea Nippotaeniidea Proteocephalidea Pseudophyllidea Spathebothriidea Tetraphyllidea...

BOARD 22 The adult cestode, Hymenolepis diminuta, an intestinal parasite of the rat, has a predominantly anaerobic energy metabolism and forms succinate as the major end product of glucose utilization. Succinate formation is a mitochondrial function that is catalyzed by the electron...