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Volume 25, Number 11—November 2019
Research Letter

Host Switching of Zoonotic Broad Fish Tapeworm (Dibothriocephalus latus) to Salmonids, Patagonia

Roman KuchtaComments to Author , Alžbeta Radačovská, Eva Bazsalovicsová, Gustavo Viozzi, Liliana Semenas, Marina Arbetman, and Tomáš Scholz
Author affiliations: Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic (R. Kuchta, T. Scholz); Institute of Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic (A. Radačovská, E. Bazsalovicsová); U; niversidad Nacional del Comahue, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina (G. Viozzi, L. Semenas, M. Arbetman)

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Microphotographs of Dibothriocephalus spp. plerocercoids from 3 salmonid species in Lago Gutiérrez, Patagonia, Argentina. A) D. dendriticus and D. latus plerocercoids from Oncorhynchus mykiss rainbow trout. B) D. latus plerocercoids from Salvelinus fontinalis brook trout. C) D. dendriticus plerocercoids from Salmo trutta brown trout. D) D. latus plerocercoids from S. trutta brown trout. E, F) D. dendriticus plerocercoids from O. mykiss rainbow trout. G) D. latus plerocercoids from S. fontinalis

Figure. Microphotographs of Dibothriocephalus spp. plerocercoids from 3 salmonid species in Lago Gutiérrez, Patagonia, Argentina. A) D. dendriticus and D. latus plerocercoids from Oncorhynchus mykiss rainbow trout. B) D. latus plerocercoids from Salvelinus fontinalis brook trout. C) D. dendriticus plerocercoids from Salmo trutta brown trout. D) D. latus plerocercoids from S. trutta brown trout. E, F) D. dendriticus plerocercoids from O. mykiss rainbow trout. G) D. latus plerocercoids from S. fontinalis brook trout.

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