Live Worm Removed From Woman's Brain
(MedPage Today) -- A live, wriggling parasitic roundworm, 80 mm long, was extracted from the brain of a 64-year-old woman in Australia.
The worm was a third-stage larval form of Ophidascaris robertsi and was surgically removed from the patient...
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