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A New Record of the occurrence of a Tapeworm of the genus Bertiella in Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2010

Thomas W. M. Cameron
Affiliation:
(Lecturer and Milner Research Fellow in the Department of Helminthology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.)

Extract

During a visit to the island of St. Kitts, British West Indies, in 1928, I received from Dr. S. B. Jones for identification, a tapeworm which he had received from a young negress who had never left the island. The tapeworm was a specimen of Bertiella.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1929

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