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Trichuris vulpis is a whipworm that lives in the large intestine of canines in its adult stages. Out of different types of worms, Trichuris vulpis is one of the smaller worms with a size ranging from 30–50 mm in length. As the name suggests, the worm has a whip-like shape with distinct features including a small, narrow anterior head, which ...
Life cycle of T. vulpis. The most common whipworm of the dog is Trichuris vulpis. It is 4–8 cm long, has a long thin front end and a thickened rear end. The eggs are lemon-shaped, 80×40 μm in size, brownish, thick-shelled, and have thickening at the poles ("pole pads"). They are unfurled when the eggs are laid.
more common in developing countries due to improved feeding practices in developed countries. ingestion of undercooked pork Whipworm: Trichuris trichiura, Trichuris vulpis: large intestine, anus stool (eggs) common worldwide accidental ingestion of eggs in dry goods such as beans, rice, and various grains or soil contaminated with human feces
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Trichuris (synonym Trichocephalus [1]), often referred to as whipworms or the silent serpent (which typically refers to T. trichiura only in medicine, and to any other species in veterinary medicine), is a genus of parasitic helminths from the roundworm family Trichuridae.
It belongs to the genus Trichuris, formerly known as Trichocephalus, meaning hair head, which would be a more accurate name; however the generic name is now Trichuris, which means hair tail (implying that the posterior end of the worm is the attenuated section).
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