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What parasite causes a deficiency of B12 vitamin?
What parasite causes a deficiency of B12 vitamin?
- Hymenolepis nana
- Diphyllobothrium latum (correct)
- Taenia saginata
- Mesocestoides lineatus
What parasite can be diagnosed by finding eggs in the sputum?
What parasite can be diagnosed by finding eggs in the sputum?
- Mesocestoides lineatus
- Paragonimus westermani (correct)
- Prosthogonimus pellucidus
- Paramphistomum cervi
Which statement about Taenia solium is false?
Which statement about Taenia solium is false?
- Intermediate hosts for T. solium are cows (correct)
- The predilection site for development of Taenia larvae are among other striated muscles
- The eggs of Taenia saginata and T. solium are morphologically indistinguishable
- Taenia solium has 7-13 uterine branches in each gravid proglottid
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