Sunday, April 21, 2013

Parasites in human faeces

Can you identify these particles?

62 years old woman from Split, Croatia has been suffering diarrhea and abdominal pain. Stool sample was taken and particles found from faeces are in the image below. The size of the particles is 16 x 28 micrometers.


















Anawer: Eggs of Metagonimus yokogawai (Heterophyes heterophyes, Clonorchis sinensis, and Metagonimus yokogawai are morphologically vey similar)

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