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Organism	Intermediate hosts	Distribution	Notes
Diphyllobothrium latum	Cyclops or Diaptomus microcrustacean followed by freshwater fish	Scandinavia (related to smoked/pickled fish), Siberia, Russia, Japan, Chile, and Uganda	largest human tapeworm, up to 10 m
Hymenolepis nana	none; only in humans
Taenia saginata	cows	worldwide, highest in Africa and Asia
Taenia solium	pigs (and humans)	worldwide, highest in Mexico, Central/South America, Southwest Asia, and Africa	humans are intermediate (cysticercosis) and definitive (taeniasis) hosts

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 |[[Diphyllobothrium latum]]
 |[[Cyclops]] or [[Diaptomus]] microcrustacean followed by freshwater fish
 |Scandinavia (related to smoked/pickled fish), Siberia, Russia, Japan, Chile, and Uganda
+|largest human tapeworm, up to 10 m
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 |[[Hymenolepis nana]]
 |none; only in humans
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 |cows
 |worldwide, highest in Africa and Asia
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 |[[Taenia solium]]
 |pigs (and humans)
 |worldwide, highest in Mexico, Central/South America, Southwest Asia, and Africa
+|humans are intermediate (cysticercosis) and definitive (taeniasis) hosts
 |}
 [[Category:Infectious diseases]]