Unidentified trematode eggs in faeces of Australian aboriginal children.
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.
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D000818:Animals; D001315:Australia; D002648:Child; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000469:parasitology*; D008297:Male; D014200:Trematoda / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000469:parasitology; D014201:Trematode Infections / Q000469:parasitology*; D000095283:Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples