Oncosphere
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oncosphere-264-17848386
title:
Oncosphere
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An oncosphere is the larval form of a tapeworm once it has been ingested by an intermediate host animal. The intermediate host must ingest the tapeworm's eggs either in food or water-- once this has happened, the eggs hatch and develop into oncospheres which will then burrow through the gut wall of the intermediate host in order to access the organs or tissues of that host where they will continue the next stage of their development as cysticerci or bladderworms. The bladderworm is a cyst create
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Stage of development of a tapeworm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncosphere
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2023-05-23T04:07:02Z
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