Précis de parasitologie
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TL;DR: This chapter summarizes all significant matters concerning Taenia saginata taeniasis and cysticercosis—that is, nomenclature, host relationships, structure and biology, clinical and therapeutic features, epidemiology and epizootiology, and prevention of infection.
Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter summarizes all significant matters concerning Taenia saginata (T. saginata) taeniasis and cysticercosis—that is, nomenclature, host relationships, structure and biology, clinical and therapeutic features, epidemiology and epizootiology, and prevention of infection. It considers some taxonomic problems and the hosts of T. saginata. The structure and biology of the adult worm, egg, onchosphere, and cysticercus is discussed. The clinical aspects of taeniasis are dealt in terms of symptomatology, clinical pathology, diagnosis, and treatment. Yomesan is the drug of choice for T. saginata infection in Man at present, and some suggestions are made for treatment with this and other drugs. The chapter discusses epidemiology, epizootiological, and losses due to taeniasis and cysticercosis. Losses are difficult to estimate, because infection is rarely fatal, but some figures are available for European, African, and American areas. Meat inspection is dealt with as a means of prevention, likewise serological diagnosis and the immunization of cattle. Sanitation is a matter discussed, its improvement, expensive but connected with higher standards of living.
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TL;DR: Because clinical signs in feline leish maniosis are unspecific and similar to those observed in other diseases commonly found in this species, leishmaniosis must be added to the differential diagnosis by feline veterinary practitioners and adequate serologic and histopathologic investigations must be performed in endemic areas.
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