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Tapeworms
Websites
Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap26.html
Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/pa...ites/alveolarhydatid/default.htm
Research network on the epidemiology of Echinococcosis caused by Echinococcus granulosus and Echinococcus multilocularis in Asia
http://www.unizh.ch/paras/echintas/index.html
Description and links to what the government and doctors have to say about it.
http://hometown.aol.com/dhconnary/neurocysticercosis.html
Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Diphyllobothriasis.htm
Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Hymenolepiasis.htm
Discusses the life cycle, pathology caused by the tapeworm, control, and treatment.
http://martin.parasitology.mcgill.ca/jimspage/biol/d_latum.htm
The fish tapeworm. Includes life cycle and images.
http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/diphyllobothrium.html
Factsheet with distribution, clinical findings, treatment, and prevention.
http://www3.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/echinococcosis.htm
Medical and scientific information on the organisms and the diseases they cause.
http://gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/ch089.htm
Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001391.htm
Article by Imad S Dandan, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1046.htm
Article by Enrico Brunetti, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic629.htm
Article by Ryan Tenzer, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic119.htm
Article by Thomas P Giordano, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic494.htm
Article by Derek Linklater, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic571.htm
Article by Alia Rai, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic597.htm
Article by Dominique A Vuitton, MD, PhD.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic326.htm
Article by Raquel Mora, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic567.htm
Case reports on the disease with images from the Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/journal/vol43_5/4350054.htm
Fact sheets and articles on this disease caused by tapeworms.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/pa...asites/cysticercosis/default.htm