Monday, February 24, 2020

Case of the Week 582

This week's case was kindly donated by Monica Jarvis and Liliana Arias. The patient is a young child who lives on a family farm. The mother noticed "worms" in the child's stool and submitted them to the laboratory for identification.
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What is this?

11 comments:

John Markantonis DO said...

Hymenolepis nana

Anatoly said...

Dipylidium caninum: proglottid (macro) and 6-hooked embryos in eggs (packets or single eggs)

Sir Galahad said...

Dipylidiun caninum

Anonymous said...

Once again, the dog or cat relieves it's anal itch and passes its double pores proglottids into its human dwellings. The proglottids disintegrate and release the brood of packets of eggs. Dipilidium caninum has been found not only in dog but also on cats.
The freshly passed proglottids are motile but soon shrink in size to that of a small rice grain and become motionless.
Florida Fan

shellymichalski01 said...

Adorable little proglottids!

Old One said...

My dog has fleas

Sam said...

As there are no measurements available for the ova and no great detail on the proglotidd, my diagnosis would be solely based on the appearance of the ova and the patient being a child. My diagnosis would be Hymenolepis nana. 6 hooklets can be seen in the oncosphere, and polar filaments can just about be seen.

nema said...

Hymenolepis nana

José M Saugar said...

Dipylidium caninum

William Sears said...

dipyllidium caninum proglottid

Old One said...

when dealing with a D. caninum infection don' forget to treat your pets and possibly premises for fleas.