This week's case is from Dr. Beth Adams who encountered a patient in the Moskitia region of Honduras who had coughed up the following object. What is your presumptive identification?
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7 comments:
Ascaris sp. adult worm
The most common parasite round worm Ascaris lumbricoides. The one end looks curved and suggests a male one.
Florida Fan
Ascariasis
Wonder if it's lumbbricoides human ascariasis or ascariasis summ zoonotic. Charleston SC vetmed fan
Ascaris sp, adult.
(Retired Microbiologist/Parasitologist after 38 yrs from Dallas. )
Ascaris lumbricoides adult worm. As Florida Fan correctly indicates, the curved (posterior) end suggests it being a male adult.
Molecular analysis has indicated that Ascaris suum and Ascaris lumbricoides are in fact the same species, with Ascaris lumbricoides having taxonomic priority (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1756-3305-5-42).
Ascaris lumbricoides? /Patrik
Coughed up? From stomach?
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