Recent finding: cucumber tapeworm
🙏 The publication was kindly provided by Anastasia Goncharova.
Morphological features of cucumber tapeworm (Dipylidium caninum) egg cocoons in a native stool sample during microscopic diagnosis of dipylidiasis.
Recent finding: cucumber tapeworm
🙏 The publication was kindly provided by Anastasia Goncharova.

Characteristics of dipylidiosis, features of the causative agent Dipylidium caninum (cucumber tapeworm), and the microscopic picture of egg cocoons in feces.

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