Volume 8, Number 4, April 2002

Synopsis

Baylisascaris procyonis: An Emerging Helminthic Zoonosis

Frank Sorvillo,* Lawrence R. Ash,* O.G.W. Berlin,*† JoAnne Yatabe,† Chris Degiorgio,‡ and Stephen A. Morse§
*University of California Los Angeles School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California; †Specialty Labs, Santa Monica, California, USA; University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA; and §Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta Georgia, USA

Figure 2. Cross-section of Baylisascaris procyonis larva in tissue section of brain, demonstrating characteristic diagnostic features including prominent lateral alae and excretory columns.

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