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SUBMITTER: Sapp SGH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6056116 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sapp Sarah G H SGH Yabsley Michael J MJ Bradbury Richard S RS
Emerging infectious diseases 20180801 8
Occasionally, abnormal forms of parasitic helminth eggs are detected during routine diagnostics. This finding can prove problematic in diagnosis because morphologic analysis based on tightly defined measurements is the primary method used to identify the infecting species and molecular confirmation of species is not always feasible. We describe instances of malformed nematode eggs (primarily from members of the superfamily Ascaridoidea) from human clinical practice and experimental trials on ani ...[more]