General Parasitology and Helminthology: Monezia expansa

Monezia expansa

MONIEZIA EXPANSA

Common name	Double - pored ruminant tapeworm
Host	Cattle, buffaloes, sheep and goats
Location	Small intestine
Intermediate host	Psocids, book lice, dust lice
Intermediate stage	Cysticercoid
Mature segments	Whitish narrow segments. Very short and not well developed segments. Single set of genitalia. Excretory canals are prominent with fewer number of testes on either side of the excretory canals. Genital pores irregularly alternate, lateral to the excretory canals. No vitelline glands.
Gravid segments	Single snail shaped par uterine organ in each segment Grossly - Uterus and par uterine organ are seen as an opaque line in the median portion of segments. Proglottids short, indistinctly segmented

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Monezia expansa

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