Sentences with phrase «microscopic tapeworm eggs»

When the moving segments crawl away, dry up, and crack, they release hundreds of microscopic tapeworm eggs.

The CDC researchers, who published their findings Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, now think the Colombian man may have ingested some microscopic tapeworm eggs, most likely in food contaminated by mouse droppings, insects or human feces.

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Tapeworm eggs are also microscopic in size but they are released in an egg case that is muscular and has a pore that expels the eggs as it moves and uses up energy.

Roundworms produce microscopic eggs which are shed in the faeces of infected cats, whereas tapeworms release mature segments (which again contain eggs) from the end of the worm into the faeces.