Case of the Week 610
I have a fun case for you this week from Dr. Richard Bradbury! The following structures were seen in a stool sample from a 2-year old child from a rural southern Australia with mucoid diarrhea, abdominal pain, and poor weight gain. Both an unstained web prep and iodine-stained prep are shown. The size of these objects ranges from 26–32 μm long by 16–17.5 μm wide. What's the identification?
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Answer to Case 610:
Brachylaima cribbi, a parasitic trematode found only in Australia to date.