Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a chronic zoonosis caused by infection with the larval stage(protoscoleces, PSCs) of the cestode Echinococcus granulosus. A unique characteristic of the PSC is an ability to develop bidirectionally into an adult worm in the definitive host or into a secondary hydatid cy...
ORGANISM(S): Echinococcus granulosus
