Capillaria larvae in urine!🔬
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-Small fish, BIG tapeworm-
Meet Ligula intestinalis, a widespread tapeworm with a complex life cycle involving a tiny copepod, a fish 🐟, and a bird🐦! It can be a little tricky for a parasite 🪱 to complete its life cycle when so many different hosts are required, but this tapeworm has some amazing strategies to achieve this!
One way it makes its way from a fish host (with no desire to be caught) into its final  host (the birds), is to master buoyancy! As the worm grows, and grows, and grows...(it can reach ~30% of the host's weight) it changes the buoyancy of the fish causing it to rise more easily to the surface of the water 💦. Because of this, the fish spends considerably more time at the surface and becomes an easy target for hungry birds! This allows the tapeworm to reach its final host when the fish is captures and eaten by a suitable bird species.
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Snake mites 'Ophionyssus natricis' affecting a bearded dragon 🐲.

The snake 🐍 mite is the most common ectoparasite of snakes and feed on their blood. These mites are occasionally found on lizards 🦎, including bearded dragons🐉.
Their life cycle is short, about a couple of weeks, so mite infestation can spread very quickly through reptiles in the same household. Treatment may be challenging and for the individual pet typically consists on sanitation, topical and systemic acaricides, and habitat-based pesticide applications.
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Some herp guests: pinworms or oxyurids from a green iguana 🦎 (Iguana iguana)
These organisms are usually not pathogenic in herbivorous and insectivorous reptiles but play a role in digestion.
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Cysticercus pisiformis: the larval (metacestode) stage of Taenia pisiformis from the liver of a rabbit 🐰🐇.
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Muellerius capillaris in a sheep 🐑 lung. The whole family is there: adult, larvae and eggs.

This little nematodes aren't often a problem unless there are loads of them.

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Hydatid cyst in kidney

Hydatid cyst is one of the most important zoonotic diseases caused by Echinococcus granulosus.

The infection is transmitted through the oral-fecal pathway through the eggs 🥚 of the parasite and moreover by eating vegetables 🥬 and food contaminated with dog 🐶🐾 feces 💩 containing eggs 🥚 of the parasite 🪱.

Hydatid cyst can produce in the liver, lungs 🫁 and rarely in the heart 🫀, breast 🤱, thyroid, soft tissue of the neck and kidneys.
Hydatydic kidney cyst is a rare diseases that may go asymptomatic for years.
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Removal of botfly larva from a young marsh rabbit 🐰🐰.
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The dance of every parasite...💃🕺
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Paramphostomosis (Rumen fluke) in the rumen mucosa of an adult bullock 🐂. The most common of these fluke is called Calicophoron dauneyi. The larval stage of this parasite 🪱 can cause significant disease in the intestine of young cattle 🐮🐄 and sheep 🐏🐑. Clinical signs include anaemia, diarrhoea and weight loss.
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✏️ Cordylobia anthropophaga, the mango fly, or skin maggot fly 🪰, is a species of blow-fly common in East and Central Africa. It is a parasite of large mammals (including humans) during its larval stage. C. anthropophaga has been endemic in the subtropics of Africa for more than 135 years and is a common cause of myiasis in humans 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦and animals 🐕🐈 in the region.
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Successful penetrations in humans and animals results in furuncular (boil-like) myiasis 🐛, typically on the backs of arms or about the waist, lower back, or buttocks. C. anthropophaga rarely causes severe problems, and mainly causes cutaneous myiasis.
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