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  • Hosts. Intermediate hosts: Copepods and freshwater fish. Definitive hosts: Humans and fish eating mammals. Identification. D. latum are long tapeworms...
  • Detected in faecal specimens of infected human. Eggs immature when passed. Egg is not infective to human. Diagnostic Features. Size: 60 x 40 mm (range 55-75...
  • Sometimes referred to as the "Jewish Grandmother's tapeworm," Diphyllobothrium latum is a cestode transmitted to humans through the consumption of raw...
  • Adult in small intestine. Immature eggs shed from gravid proglottids, passed in feces. Eggs develop in fresh water> develop into coracidium. Coracidium emerge...
  • Learn about Diphyllobothrium latum, commonly known as the fish tapeworm, its transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.