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Taenia saginata

Friday 16 December 2016

Taenia saginata, the beef tapeworm, and Diphyllobothrium latum, the fish tapeworm, are acquired by eating undercooked meat or fish. In humans, these parasites live only in the gut, and they do not form cysticerci.

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 Taenia sp.