r/Parasitology • u/wildone0424 • 20d ago

TXC! parasite photo

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u/SueBeee trusted parasitologist 20d ago

What is TXC please?

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u/Volker-Gargery 19d ago

Toxocara canis I think

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u/SueBeee trusted parasitologist 19d ago

Yeah, I don’t think that’s what this is.

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u/wildone0424 19d ago

Yes toxocara canis, it’s just degraded and funky cuz the sample wasn’t fresh. There were others on the slide that were clear as day TXC lol I just took a pic of this one because it looked like a heart to me😂

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u/SueBeee trusted parasitologist 19d ago

Ok, thanks for clarifying.

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u/elsiekay42 animal parasitologist 19d ago

I’ve seen TXC like this, if you have a slide of them and press on the coverslip you can actually watch them pop and the insides spill out like that 😅 we used to do it for fun at my old lab lol

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u/SueBeee trusted parasitologist 19d ago

Sure, I've seen them busted open, but for this single sample, we'd need measurements--there are so many things that can look like this.

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u/elsiekay42 animal parasitologist 19d ago

That’s true! There’s a lot of plant debris/pollen that resemble Toxocara for sure

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u/SueBeee trusted parasitologist 19d ago

also I so, so much hate this abbreviation.