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To the Editor: The Image in Clinical Medicine by Matuchansky and Lenormand (Dec. 2 issue)¹ is excellent, but why was it labeled Taenia saginata? The two species of intestinal taenia that are commonly found in humans are T. saginata and T. solium, which may be easily distinguished by the shape and structure of their segments (proglottids) but not by their image on an x-ray film.

T. saginata also differs from T. solium with regard to the motility of its individual segments, which are shed by the adult worm as echinococcus species are in dogs. The absence of motility in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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