Unidentified trematode eggs in faeces of Australian aboriginal children.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
In routine surveys for intestinal parasites among Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander populations, eggs of unidentified trematode species have been found in the faeces of three children. In two of these, the eggs appeared to belong to a schistosome, or perhaps monogenean, species, and in the third, they were most likely from a monostome of dugongs. Although these probably represent cases of spurious parasitism, one or more may have been a true infection.