Unidentified trematode eggs in faeces of Australian aboriginal children |
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Authors: | P Prociv R A Luke P A Quayle |
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Affiliation: | Department of Parasitology, University of Queensland, St Lucia. |
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Abstract: | In routine surveys for intestinal parasites among Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander populations, eggs of unidentified trematode species have been found in the faeces of three children. In two of these, the eggs appeared to belong to a schistosome, or perhaps monogenean, species, and in the third, they were most likely from a monostome of dugongs. Although these probably represent cases of spurious parasitism, one or more may have been a true infection. |
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