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background: echinococcus granulosus , a zoonotic cestode parasite, causative agent of hydatid cyst is endemic in many parts of the world including the middle east. study on different aspects of this parasite is very important and valuable. however, working with adult worms which their habitat situated in the small intestine of canids, is dangerous and risky. achieving such risky situa­tion need...

Cyprinid fish, Hemiculter leucisculus, Cultrichthys erythropterus and Culter dabryi, were sampled from Liangzi, Honghu and Tangxun lakes in the flood plain of the Yangtze River. The cestode Bothriocephalus acheilognathi Yamaguti, 1934 was found in the 3 lakes, but C. erythropterus sampled from Liangzi lake was found uninfected due probably to the small sample size. Findings of the cestode in th...

In the present study, a survey was carried out for a period of two years from Jan 2005 to Dec 2006 on the prevalence and pathology associated with the cestode Amoebotaenia sphenoides in a sample size of 478 birds collected from different localities of Kashmir valley, India. The overall prevalence rate of the cestode was found to be 6.69% (32/478) and annual occurrence rates of 6.8% (16/233) and...