New evidence suggests that a disease-causing tapeworm that has been spreading across the United States and Canada has arrived ...

The film discusses the life cycle of the tapeworm Diphyllobothrium latum, affecting nearly 10 million people primarily in cooler northern regions. This parasite requires three hosts: a fish-eating ...

Commercial poultry producers face two broad categories of internal parasites: helminths (worms) and protozoa. Among helminths ...

Cestoda, commonly known as tapeworms, is a large class within the platyhelminth phylum with about 5,000 species described so far. Recently, researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and ...

This underwhelming treatise from Janovy (Letter to a Child Born Today), a biology professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, struggles to distill wisdom from the abilities and life ...

A new University of Washington study detected a parasitic tapeworm that can infect domestic dogs and humans in the intestines of one-third of coyotes ...