Journal of Food: Microbiologia, Segurança e Higiene
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Food Parasitic worms in the flatworm phylum (Platyhelminthes)

Peggi Guenter

Cestoda is a class of parasitic worms in the flatworm phylum (Platyhelminthes). The greater part of the species—and the most popular—are those in the subclass Eucestoda; they are lace like worms as grown-ups, known as tapeworms. Their bodies comprise of numerous comparative units known as proglottids - basically bundles of eggs which are consistently shed into the climate to contaminate different creatures. Types of the other subclass, Cestodaria, are principally fish parasites. All cestodes are parasitic; many have complex life chronicles, remembering a phase for a conclusive (fundamental) have in which the grown-ups develop and replicate,