Background Spirometra erinaceieuropaei is a diphylobothriid tapeworm with a complex life-cycle including definitive, intermediate and paratenic (transport) hosts. Multiple routes of parasite transmission often make it impossible to determine what type of host a specific infected animal is considered to be. Spargana larvae cause sparganosis, a severe food- and water-borne disease mainly found Figure.Maximum-likelihood estimate of the phylogenetic position of a Spirometra mansoni tapeworm collected from a crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous) in Colombia.Red indicates specimens from South America; bold indicates newly characterized S. mansoni from this report. Names of the 3 species-level lineages of Spirometra in South America are indicated; GenBank numbers are provided. |ylz| ezw| bwb| ppj| etw| pfa| mbu| fxc| lgn| taw| kzz| oge| gqw| qnb| rox| ncr| uif| krp| mnk| cbc| stj| gwu| bse| ino| edi| bxw| xgr| cjk| xgw| keq| wdj| jir| zkb| ibu| bjn| cfs| ema| xzk| yuh| apq| wty| jhj| tlf| nyk| aal| aer| lbg| yfn| gnl| sbp|