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142: Other Tapeworm Infections: (Including Hydatid Disease)
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Published:January 2023
"Other Tapeworm Infections: (Including Hydatid Disease)", Red Book Atlas of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Tina Q. Tan, MD, FAAP
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Most tapeworm (cestode) infections are asymptomatic, but nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea have been observed in people who are heavily infected.
This tapeworm, also known as the dwarf tapeworm because it is the smallest of the adult human tapeworms (about 3–4 cm long), can complete its entire life cycle within humans. Transmission occurs by ingestion of eggs present in feces of infected people resulting in human-to-human spread via the fecal-oral route or, rarely, by ingestion of infected arthropods (certain species of beetles and fleas) present in food. Autoinfection, in which eggs can hatch within the intestine and reinitiate the life...