"Diphyllobothrium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of tapeworm containing several species which occurs in the intestine of fish, birds, and mammals including man. Infection in humans is usually by eating uncooked fish. The larval stage is known as SPARGANUM.
| Descriptor ID |
D004170
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.500.736.215.228
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| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Diphyllobothrium" by people in Profiles.
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Two human cases of Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense infection in Korea. Korean J Parasitol. 2014 Apr; 52(2):197-9.