Brief Recognition History of Echinococcus Tapeworm

The cognitive history of Echinococcus began with the description of the diseases it caused by doctors more than 2000 years ago, but it was not until the seventeenth century that scholars began to discover the pathogens of the parasite, and in the next 200–300 years, its classification system was continuously debated and revised through morphology and molecular methods. After entering the twenty-first century, through the phylogenetic researches, nine existing valid natural species of Echinococcus were ultimately identified and preserved.