Happy New Year! Here's a great case to start off 2022. A large structure (~25 cm-long) submitted to the Clinical Parasitology lab (found in stool). Identification?
Photo is courtesy of Heather Morris.
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Ascaris lumbricoides adult to be differentiated male or female by posterior end.
Ascaris lumbricoides
A whole bundle of Ascaris lumbricoides. With this many, definitely there has to be females to produce that many, and this aggregate may have a majority of females and a few males mixed in. Most cases with only male, the number of round worm submitted is only one.
Florida Fan
Actually if we make the picture larger, we can see the head of the Ascaris with its three lips.
Florida Fan
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