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Descriptor English: Mesocestoides
Descriptor Spanish: Mesocestoides
Descriptor Mesocestoides
Scope note: Género de tenias, constituido por varias especies, que se encuentran, en forma adulta, en pájaros y mamíferos. Las larvas o el estado cisticercoide se desarrolla en invertebrados. Pueden infectar al hombre, probablemente a través de la ingesta de carne, inadecuadamente cocinada, de animales infectados con la segunda etapa larvaria conocida como tetrahithridium.
Descriptor Portuguese: Mesocestoides
Descriptor French: Mesocestoides
Entry term(s): Mesocestoide
Tree number(s): B01.050.500.500.736.215.520
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008645
Scope note: A genus of tapeworm, containing several species, found as adults in birds and mammals. The larvae or cysticercoid stage develop in invertebrates. Human infection has been reported and is probably acquired from eating inadequately cooked meat of animals infected with the second larval stage known as the tetrahythridium.
Annotation: infection: coordinate with CESTODE INFECTIONS; coordinate with specific helminth terms (ANTIGENS, HELMINTH, etc.) if pertinent
Allowable Qualifiers: AH anatomy & histology
CH chemistry
CL classification
CY cytology
DE drug effects
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PH physiology
PS parasitology
PY pathogenicity
RE radiation effects
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Cestoda (1966-1985)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under CESTODA 1987-90; was MESOCESTROIDES see under CESTODA 1986
Online Note: use MESOCESTOIDES to search MESOCESTROIDES 1986
History Note: 91(87); was see under CESTODA 1987-90; was MESOCESTROIDES see under CESTODA 1986
DeCS ID: 19396
Unique ID: D008645
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1985/03/15
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Mesocestoides - Preferred
Concept UI M0013469
Scope note A genus of tapeworm, containing several species, found as adults in birds and mammals. The larvae or cysticercoid stage develop in invertebrates. Human infection has been reported and is probably acquired from eating inadequately cooked meat of animals infected with the second larval stage known as the tetrahythridium.
Preferred term Mesocestoides
Entry term(s) Mesocestoide



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