Diphyllobothrium /Di·phyl·lo·both·ri·um/ (-both´re-um) a genus of large tapeworms, including D. la´tum (broad or fish tapeworm), found in the intestine of humans, cats, dogs, and other fish-eating mammals; its first intermediate host is a crustacean and the second a fish, the infection in humans being acquired by eating inadequately cooked fish.
Diphyllobothrium
Di·phyl·lo·both·ri·um (d -f l  -b th r - m)n. A large genus of tapeworms, one species of which causes diphyllobothriasis in humans. |
Diphyllobothrium
[dəfil′ōboth′rē·əm]
Etymology: Gk, di, twice, phyllon, leaf, bothrion, pit
a genus of large parasitic intestinal flatworms having a scolex with two slitlike grooves. The species that most often infects humans is Diphyllobothrium latum, a giant freshwater fish tapeworm of North America and Europe. See also fish tapeworm infection.
Diphyllobothrium
a genus of long tapeworms in the family Diphyllobothriidae.
Diphyllobothrium dalliae, Diphyllobothrium dendriticum, Diphyllobothrium pacificum, Diphyllobothrium strictum, Diphyllobothrium minus, Diphyllobothrium ursi
are all tapeworms of fish-eating mammals including humans.
Diphyllobothrium erinacei
spirometraerinacei.
Diphyllobothrium latum
the broad or fish tapeworm, a species found in the small intestines of humans, dogs, cats and other fish-eating mammals.
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