Infection of Man with Trichuris Vulpis, the Whipworm of Dogs
- 1 November 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 29 (6) , 1205-1208
- https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1980.29.1205
Abstract
A gravid female Trichuris was found in histopathologic sections of an appendix in a post-mortem examination, and a posterior extremity of a male Trichuris was recovered from the unsectioned portion of the same appendix. These parasites were identified as T. vulpis, the whipworm of dogs.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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