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regeneration in tapeworms
- In flatworm: Cestoda
…regenerate from the head (scolex) and neck region. This property often makes it difficult to treat people for tapeworm infections; treatment may eliminate only the body, or strobila, leaving the scolex still attached to the intestinal wall of the host and thus capable of producing a new strobila, which…
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