Diplopylidium noelleri
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Diplopylidium noelleri is a tapeworm foundin predatory animals in the Mediterranean. Intermediate hosts are dung beetles and fleas . Reptiles and small mammals can be involved in the chain of infection as transport hosts.
Adult tapeworms are up to 12 inches long and 1.1 millimeters wide. The Scolex has four suction cups and three to four rows of hooks. The sexually mature tapeworm limbs resemble a pumpkin seed and have marginal, opposite genital pores at the front end of the limb . The uterus is divided into egg capsules, each containing only one tapeworm egg.
The clinical picture corresponds to that of other tapeworm diseases in dogs or cats . Occasionally, diseases in humans that correspond to dipylidiasis also occur. D. noelleri is therefore a zoonotic agent .
literature
- Regine Ribbek and Steffen Rehbein: Helminth pants . In: Marian C. Horzinek et al. (Ed.): Diseases of the cat . Enke-Verlag, 4th edition 2005, pp. 207-226. ISBN 3-8304-1049-2