HubHip: Health: Conditions and Diseases: Infectious Diseases: Parasitic: Tapeworms (19)

   Tapeworms

• eMedicine - Tapeworm Infestation (Site) - Article by Raquel Mora, MD.
• Echintas (Site) - Research network on the epidemiology of Echinococcosis caused by Echinococcus granulosus and Echinococcus multilocularis in Asia
• eMedicine - Cysticercosis (Site) - Article by Thomas P Giordano, MD.
• Neurocysticercosis (Site) - Description and links to what the government and doctors have to say about it.
• Diphyllobothrium spp. :Bad Bug Book (Site) - Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.
• Diphyllobothriasis - CDC DPDx (Site) - Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
• eMedicine - Diphyllobothrium Latum Infection (Site) - Article by Alia Rai, MD.
• Hymenolepiasis - CDC DPDx (Site) - Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
• CDC: Division of Parasitic Diseases - Cysticercosis (Site) - Fact sheets and articles on this disease caused by tapeworms.
• Echinococcosis (Site) - Factsheet with distribution, clinical findings, treatment, and prevention.
• eMedicine - Cysticercosis (Site) - Article by Ryan Tenzer, MD.
• Medmicro: Cestodes (Site) - Medical and scientific information on the organisms and the diseases they cause.
• eMedicine - Diphyllobothriasis (Site) - Article by Derek Linklater, MD.
• MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Taeniasis (Site) - Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
• eMedicine - Echinococcosis (Site) - Article by Dominique A Vuitton, MD, PhD.
• eMedicine - Hydatid Cysts (Site) - Article by Imad S Dandan, MD.
• Hydatid Cyst (Site) - Case reports on the disease with images from the Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
• eMedicine - Cystic Echinococcosis (Site) - Article by Enrico Brunetti, MD.
• Alveolar Hydatid Disease - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases (Site) - Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.