Echinococcus
"Echinococcus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A genus of very small TAPEWORMS, in the family Taeniidae. The adult form is found in various CARNIVORA but not humans. The larval form is seen in humans under certain epidemiologic circumstances.
| Descriptor ID |
D004446
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.500.736.215.327
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Franco-Paredes C, Nicolls D, Kempker R, Dismukes R, Kozarsky P. Pelvic echinococcosis in a Northern Iraqi refugee. J Travel Med. 2006 Mar-Apr; 13(2):119-22.