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Fecal-oral transmission ensures the parasite\u2019s lifecycle. At times, dogs and humans act as accidental intermediate hosts. Despite the public health concern this parasite warrants, its epidemiology remains unclear. In this report, we document the occurrence of metacestodes of T. crassiceps in a muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) and a domestic dog from the northeastern United States, a development that necessitates increased awareness and surveillance to tackle this disease of \u201cone health\u201d significance. Taenia crassiceps cysticercosis was confirmed in an adult male muskrat in February 2018 and in a 4-year-old female spayed Staffordshire Bull Terrier in December 2020. Parasitological and histopathologic examination of both cases revealed cysticerci with the characteristic rostellar hook morphology that aided in Taenia species identification. In the muskrat case specifically, partial sequencing of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase gene confirmed the species identity as T. crassiceps. We report T. crassiceps occurrence in a muskrat in New York State for the first time and document a case presentation in a domestic dog from New Jersey that was infected with metacestode stages of this parasite. Given the detection of this parasite in the northeastern United States, T. crassiceps infection, which otherwise is considered a rare disease, should be on the radar of veterinary, medical and wildlife biologists for timely diagnosis and interventions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/pathogens12020204","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,30]],"date-time":"2023-01-30T03:31:11Z","timestamp":1675049471000},"page":"204","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Taenia crassiceps Cysticercosis in a Wild Muskrat and a Domestic Dog in the Northeastern United States"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Yufei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Amira","family":"Abdu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Parasitology, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt"},{"name":"Louisiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Timothy","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0810-9911","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mar\u00eda J.","family":"Forz\u00e1n","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Long Island University, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville, NY 11548, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kimberly","family":"Hammer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NorthStar VETS Veterinary Emergency, Trauma, and Specialty Center, 315 Robbinsville-Allentown Rd., Robbinsville, NJ 08691, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Manigandan","family":"Lejeune","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Animal Health Diagnostic Center, Cornell University, 240 Farrier Rd., Ithaca, NY 14853, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"969","DOI":"10.1139\/z62-086","article-title":"Studies on the biology of Taenia crassiceps (Zeder, 1800) Rudolph, 1810 (Cestoda)","volume":"40","author":"Freeman","year":"1962","journal-title":"Can. 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