RT Book, Section
A1 García, HéCtor H.
A1 Gilman, Robert H.
A2 Rudolph, Colin D.
A2 Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2 Lister, George E.
A2 First, Lewis R.
A2 Gershon, Anne A.
SR Print(0)
ID 7031310
T1 Chapter 336. Diphyllobothriasis
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7031310
RD 2023/02/08
AB Infection  with  fish  tapeworms  of  the  genus  Diphyllobothrium  is  called  diphyllobothriasis.  Humans  become  infected  by  eating  raw  or  poorly  cooked  fish.  The  most  frequent  species  found  in  humans  is  the  broad  fish  tapeworm,  Diphyllobothrium  latum,  geographically  located  in  regions  of  North  America,  especially  Alaska  and  northern  Canada,  Europe,  Japan,  and  Russia,  including  Siberia.  In  Latin  America,  D  pacificum  has  also  been  found  in  humans  on  the  Pacific  coast  of  Peru,  Chile,  and  Ecuador  (where  raw  marine  fish  are  prepared  with  lemon  as  cebiche),  and  Japan.1  Several  other  species  of  Diphyllobothrium  also  infect  humans,  especially  in  Alaska.  Usually,  other  definitive  hosts,  such  as  bears,  dogs,  and  cats,  maintain  the  infections  in  nature,  and  humans  are  incidentally  involved.1,2