Moniezia expansa

Moniezia expansa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Cestoda
Order:	Cyclophyllidea
Family:	Anoplocephalidae
Genus:	Moniezia
Species:	M. expansa
Binomial name
	Moniezia expansa; Rudolphi, 1810

Moniezia expansa is commonly known as sheep tapeworm or double-pored ruminant tapeworm. It is a large tapeworm inhabiting the small intestines of ruminants such as sheep, goats and cattle. It has been reported from Peru that pigs are also infected.^[1] There is an unusual report of human infection in an Egyptian.^[2] It is characterized by unarmed scolex (i.e., hooks and rostellum are absent), presence of two sets of reproductive systems in each proglottid, and each proglottid being very short but very broad.

^ Gómez-Puerta, Luis Antonio; Lopez-Urbina, Maria Teresa; González, Armando E. (2008). "Occurrence of Moniezia expansa (Rud, 1810) Blanchard, 1891 (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) in domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica Linnaeus, 1758) in Perú". Veterinary Parasitology. 158 (4): 380–1. doi:10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.08.019. PMID 19028016.
^ el-Shazly AM, Morsy TA, Dawoud HA (2004). "Human Monieziasis expansa: the first Egyptian parastic zoonosis". J Egypt Soc Parasitol. 34 (2): 380–381. PMID 15287174.

[1] Gómez-Puerta, Luis Antonio; Lopez-Urbina, Maria Teresa; González, Armando E. (2008). "Occurrence of Moniezia expansa (Rud, 1810) Blanchard, 1891 (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) in domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica Linnaeus, 1758) in Perú". Veterinary Parasitology. 158 (4): 380–1. doi:10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.08.019. PMID 19028016.

[2] -Shazly AM, Morsy TA, Dawoud HA (2004). "Human Monieziasis expansa: the first Egyptian parastic zoonosis". J Egypt Soc Parasitol. 34 (2): 380–381. PMID 15287174.

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