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Captured during the necropsy of a Sigmodon sp. cotton rat. Note how the liver had been infected by the fox tapeworm, Echinococcus multilocularis larvae, or oncospheres, and produced numerous multi-chambered, or multilocular, thin-walled, alveolar-type hydatid cysts. E. multilocularis causes the disease alveolar echinococcosis. This image was created 45-days after having been infected.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Elvio Herbert Sadun, ScD
Creation Date: 1956
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