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Item Recovery Rate and Distribution of Cysticercus bovis in Calves Artificially Infected with Tae1lia saginata Eggs(1972) Mango, A. M.; Mango, C. K. A.Artificial infection of calves each with 10,000 viable taenia saginata eggs was carried out in order to determine the infectivity of the eggs based 011. The recovery of cysticercus bovis cysts. A recovery rate of 13'28% was obtained and it was observed that this was inversely related to the occurrence of large cysts that were presumed to have originated from an earlier natural injection. The distribution of the cysts in regard to sites of relative preference was also determined. Natural injection tended to confer resistance to super-infection.