diphyllobothroidとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

diphyllobothroid (not comparable)

1. Similar to the tapeworms of genus Diphyllobothrium, especially those in which the scolex of the adult lacks suckers or hooks.
   • 1999, Edward K. Markell, David T. John, Wojciech A. Krotoski, Markell and Voge's Medical Parasitology (page 238)

     Infection of humans by plerocercoid larvae of various diphyllobothroid tapeworms belonging to the genus Spirometra is known as sparganosis.

   • 2012, Dongyou Liu, Molecular Detection of Human Parasitic Pathogens (page 293)

     To study the genetic relationships among diphyllobothroid tapeworms, other members of the Diphyllobothriidae are considered, with T. solium as the outgroup.