Note on Cestode Nomenclature

Cestode vaccines.

Studies over the past 20 years have clearly shown the potential for developing vaccines against larval cestode infections of man and animals. The important larval cestode infections of man (Echinococcus granulosus--hydatidosis: Taenia solium--cysticercosis) involve domesticated animals as intermediate hosts in their natural life-cycles. These animals develop strong immunity against reinfection,...

Vaccination against cestode parasites.

Cestode parasites are important because they cause production losses, particularly in the sheep, beef and pig meat industries, and because some species are zoonotic parasites which cause serious disease in humans. Research on the development of vaccines to prevent infection with cestode parasites has concentrated on the taeniid cestodes. Two strategies can be adopted for vaccine research: vacci...

Morphology of a new species of bat cestode, Hymenolepis roudabushi, and a note on Hymenolepis christensoni Macy.

On Rickettsia Nomenclature

his issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases contains 2 independent reports of Rickettsia sibirica infections in Spain and Portugal. The authors identify the agent both as a subspecies (1) and as a strain (2). This inconsistency refl ects a lack of consensus regarding the use of subspe-cies designations for Rickettsia taxa, so appropriate designation of these pathogens as strains or subspecies rem...

Unified terminology for cestode microtriches: a proposal from the International Workshops on Cestode Systematics in 2002-2008.

Terminology for microtriches, the surface features both unique to and ubiquitous among cestodes, is standardised based on discussions that occurred at the International Workshops on Cestode Systematics in Storrs, Connecticut, USA in 2002, in Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic in 2005 and in Smolenice, Slovakia in 2008. The following terms were endorsed for the components of individual microtriche...