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Helminth Collection and Identification from Wildlife
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December 14, 2013
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Wild animals are commonly parasitized by a wide range of helminths. The four major types of helminths are “roundworms” (nematodes), “thorny-headed worms” (acanthocephalans), “flukes” (trematodes), and “tapeworms” (cestodes). Here we describe how helminths are collected from a vertebrate animal and how they are preserved and taxonomically identified.
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Sepulveda, M. S., Kinsella, J. M. Helminth Collection and Identification from Wildlife. J. Vis. Exp. (82), e51000, doi:10.3791/51000 (2013).
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