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Abstract
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Cysticercus bovis, the intermediate stage of the human tapeworm Taenia saginata, has been reported once in New Zealand (Gilruth, Citation1908). This report referred to the occurrence of the condition in the muscular tissue of the heart of a bullock killed at the Invercargill Abattoir. There are no further reports of its having been found again in beef in this country. A number of segments from adult parasites from humans have been seen from time to time by the parasitology section of the Wallaceville Animal Research Centre (Whitten, pers. comm.). These human cases have occurred in immigrants to this country.