Cestodes ( tapeworms ) and other parasitic flatworms have complex life-cycles, in which specific developmental stages are completed in a sequence of several different hosts.
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Antiparasitics are a class of medications indicated for the treatment of infection by parasites, such as nematodes, cestodes, trematodes, infectious protozoa, and amoebae.
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"' Tapeworm infection "'is the infestation of the digestive tract by a species of parasitic flatworm ( known as a cestode ), called tapeworms.
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The park was initially run by an honorary managing committee which included Schwendler and the famous botanist cestodes ( flatworm ) found in an Australian bird that died at the zoo.
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Several endoparasitic cestodes including " Hymenolepis javanensis " and " Cittotaenia sandgroundi " have been described from lesser whistling duck hosts apart from ectoparasitic bird lice and mites.
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A member of the cestode class, tapeworms do not have digestive tracts to absorb nutrients, instead their surface body layer is metabolically active with nutrients and waste passing in and out continuously.
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Eastern cottontails are hosts to fleas, ticks, lice, cestodes, nematodes, trematodes, gray flesh fly larvae, botfly larvae, tularemia, shopes fibroma, torticollis, and streptothricosis cutaneous.
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The eggs of trematodes are excreted from their main hosts, whereas adult cestodes generate vast numbers of hermaphroditic, segment-like proglottids that detach when mature, are excreted, and then release eggs.
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Ecto-and endoparasites have been reported to include trematodes, cestodes, nematodes, acanthocephalans, lice ( Anoplura ), fleas ( Siphonaptera ), Diptera, and ticks and mites ( Acari ).
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In 1930, Filmer collected 3 cestodes at Tuggerah, New South Wales from a fresh water tortoise, " Chelodina longicollis ", and submitted these to the South Australian Museum for identification.
