KROK 1 2016 – Question 35 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
A 26-year-old woman consulted a doctor about having stool with white flat moving organisms resembling noodles. Laboratory analysis revealed proglottids with the following characteristics: long, narrow, with a longitudinal channel of the uterus with 17-35 lateral branches on each side. What kind of intestinal parasite was found?
- A. Hymenolepis nana
- B. Diphyllobothrium latum
- C. Echinococcus granulosus
- D. Taenia solium
- E. Taeniarhynchus saginatus
Hint
Use the number of lateral uterine branches in the gravid proglottid, and the fact that segments move out on their own, to tell the large tapeworms apart.
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