Diphyllobothriasis. Diphyllobothrium latum is the longest parasite that infects humans: adult worms can achieve a length of more than 10 m (33 feet) in ...

The only apparent active behavior of this tapeworm involves migration of juvenile stages from the gut to other parts of the host's body. The egg of the worm, which ...

The egg of Diphyllobothriumlatum resembles the egg of a digenetic trematode, that is, it is oval and possesses a distinct operculum at one pole of the shell.

After five or six weeks, the larva matures to the adult worm. Both eggs and proglottids are passed in the stool. The eggs develop in 2 weeks, and hatch to become ...

The life cycle of D. latum, as it relates to humans, begins when un-embryonated eggs are released into the feces of humans that were infected ...

Immature eggs are discharged from the proglottids (up to 1,000,000 eggs per day per worm) and are passed in the feces. The incubation period in humans, after ...

A, B: Eggs of Diphyllobothrium latum. These eggs are oval or ellipsoidal, with an operculum at one end that can be inconspicuous.

Diphyllobothrium spp. eggs are oval or ellipsoidal and range in size from 55 to 75 µm by 40 to 50 µm. There is an operculum at one end that can ...

Dibothriocephalus latus (=Diphyllobothrium latum), the “broad fish tapeworm”, is usually assumed to be the most common agent of human ...