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Volume 21, Number 10—October 2015
Synopsis

Pacific Broad Tapeworm Adenocephalus pacificus as a Causative Agent of Globally Reemerging Diphyllobothriosis

Roman KuchtaComments to Author , Marcus Enrique Serrano-Martínez, and Tomas Scholz
Author affiliations: Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic (R. Kuchta, T. Scholz); Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cayetano Heredia University, Lima, Peru (M.E. Serrano-Martínez)

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Life cycle of the Adenocephalus pacificus Pacific broad tapeworm. From top: definitive hosts (otariid seals, humans, dogs); egg; coracidium; potentional first intermediate host (copepod); second intermediate hosts (Sarda chiliensis, Sciaena deliciosa, Trachurus murphyi); encysted plerocercoids in body cavity of fish.

Figure 2. Life cycle of the Pacific broad tapeworm. From top: definitive hosts (otariid seals, humans, dogs); egg; coracidium; potentional first intermediate host (copepod); second intermediate hosts (Sarda chiliensis, Sciaena deliciosa, Trachurus murphyi); encysted plerocercoids in body cavity of fish Adenocephalus pacificus.

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