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Infection of animals, including fish and man, with a developmental stage of Diphyllobothrium. This stage has recently been referred to as a plerocercoid but the name sparganum has persisted. Therefore, infection of fish or other animals with the plerocercoid larvae is sparganosis. Fish-eating mammals, including man, are the final hosts.
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- Sparganoses
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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tapeworm infect; see note under SPARGANUM; infect at larval stage: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIASIS is infect by adult
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- National Library of Medicine. Sparganosis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013031. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013031
- Sparganosis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparganosis
- Sparganosis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q842169