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Please note that all opinions expressed here are mine and not my employer. Information provided is for educational purposes only. It is not intended as and does not substitute for medical advice. I do not accept medical consults from patients.
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7 comments:
It looks like Cysticercus cellulosae.
Wan Hafiz
Dipylidium caninum
The translucid appearance and size of these objects is consistent with the morphology of cysticerci of either T. solium or saginata.
I have seen D. caninum proglotids in the fresh stool of my dog but these are opaque white, almost identical in size and morphology to an uncooked rice grain but they rapidly become immobile and withdraw to about half the original length.
Florida Fan
but these are in preservative fluid @Florida Fan
definetely cysticerci of Taenia solium
Truthfully, I remember having seen these somewhere. I looked through my available reference books and found the reference below:
Atlas of Human Parasitology, Ash & Orihel
ASCP 5th Ed., 2007 pg. 371, Plate 94
Image 1.
I referenced the size of the objects to the size of the fingers holding the jar: the width of a human finger is about 1/2 an inch or 12mm, the length of a knuckle 1 inch or 25mm.
Florida Fan
@Florida Fan
I have the book you mentioned and I have to admit that your right
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