Heterophyid eggs in human stool samples in Assam: first report for India.
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1995-09-01
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Two cases from a Muslim family in upper Assam were found to pass trematode eggs morphologically similar to the members of the family Heterophyidae Odhner, 1914. The eggs characteristically yellowish brown in colour, ovoid, have a thick shell and are operculate. They measured 31.5 +/- 2.0 um SD x 22.4 +/- 1.9 um SD with well developed miracidium. This is the first record of human heterophyid infection from India.
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Mahanta J, Narain K, Srivastava VK. Heterophyid eggs in human stool samples in Assam: first report for India. Journal of Communicable Diseases. 1995 Sep; 27(3): 142-5