background: the purposes of the present study were morphometric characteri-zation of rostellar hooks of taenia multiceps and to investigate the association of hook length variation and the variability within two mitochondrial genes of sheep isolates of the parasite. methods: up to 4500 sheep brains were examined for the presence of c. cerebralis . biometric characters based on the larval rostel...

The cestode Multiceps multiceps is well known as a cause of intracerebral cysts in sheep, but there are only three reports of similar human infestation certainly due to this particular parasite (Brumpt, 1936 ; Clapham, 1941 ; Cluver, quoted by Craig and Faust, 1943). The subcutaneous tissues in man have been more frequently involved; there are some eight reports from various continents. The cas...