Worm identification

[Charles T. Faulkner]

On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Brent Dixon wrote:

> I had a call yesterday from a man who claims to have passed two large, 
> active worms in his urine stream.  He described them as 10cm long and 
> 2-3mm in diameter, red, with small hooks.  His doctor referred him to a 
> 
	Perhaps they were Dioctophyma renale. A couple of case histories 
were described by Beaver et al (1984: 247). Too bad the specimens were
lost, its really difficult to do a parasite id based on vague description
and memory. Oh well.....keep us informed if anything else turns up.


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