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Date1854
AuthorBeneden
ContributionReported that feeding Taenia solium eggs to a pig resulted in cysticerci in muscles.
ReferenceGrove
NotesName, more fully, is van Beneden. Grove says work done in 1853. This was the "other half" of the tapeworm life-cycle. Cyst to strobila shown previously; now strobila per ovum to cyst.
CategoryMiscellany
Pathogen ClassHelminths

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