diphyllobothroid
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diphyllobothroid (not comparable)
- Similar to the tapeworms of genus Diphyllobothrium, especially those in which the scolex of the adult lacks suckers or hooks.
- 1999, Edward K. Markell, David T. John, Wojciech A. Krotoski, Markell and Voge's Medical Parasitology, page 238:
- Infection of humans by plerocercoid larvae of various diphyllobothroid tapeworms belonging to the genus Spirometra is known as sparganosis.
- 2012, Dongyou Liu, Molecular Detection of Human Parasitic Pathogens, page 293:
- To study the genetic relationships among diphyllobothroid tapeworms, other members of the Diphyllobothriidae are considered, with T. solium as the outgroup.