| public health significance of zoonotic tapeworms in korea. | through an epidemiological review on the zoonotic tapeworms in korea, the frequency and severity of the zoonoses have been recognized. taeniasis and human cysticercosis are of importance to the public health in korea. the frequency of taeniasis is 0.3% to 12.7% discovered by stool examination and 4.5% to 38.0% discovered by questionaire survey. taeniasis occurs more frequently in males than in females and, especially, in both sexes in the age-group of 20 to 49. t. saginata is more common that t. ... | 1976 | 977229 |
| molecular characterization of the indian poultry nodular tapeworm, raillietina echinobothrida (cestoda: cyclophyllidea: davaineidae) based on rdna internal transcribed spacer 2 region. | the nodular tapeworm, raillietina echinobothrida is a well studied avian gastrointestinal parasite of family davaineidae (cestoda: cyclophyllidea). it is reported to be the largest in size and second most prevalent species infecting chicken in north-east india. in the present study, morphometrical methods coupled with the molecular analysis of the second internal transcribed spacer (its2) region of ribosomal dna were employed for precise identification of the parasite. the annotated its2 region ... | 2014 | 24505172 |