...my barbaric YAWP...                                                                    "Song of Myself" Leaves of Grass                                                 Walt Whitman  

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Schistosoma 
 
 

Schistosoma mansoni female inside the gynecophoral groove of the male cross-section in liver tissue
Schistosoma mansoni secondary sporocysts in cross-sectioned snail	Close-up of secondary sporocysts

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Schistosoma japonicum ova in intestinal villi

Schistosoma ova in intestinal cross-section

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The surgeons in Napoleon's army reported hematuria (bloody urine) during the invasion of Egypt in 1799 but were unaware of its cause: Schistosoma haematobium. 50 years later, German parasitologist Theodor Bilharz, would name it Distomum haematobium.

Schistosoma haematobium ovum

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August 27,2001

Images photographed with Olympus OM-1 35-mm camera, Olympus KHC microscope,
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