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IT has long been a matter of uncertainty whether the ascaris parasite of the domestic pig is specifically identical with Ascaris lumbricoides L. 1758 from the intestine of man. The evidence, as brought forward by epidemiological observations and by experimental infections, appears on the whole to indicate that there is a difference in these two parasites; but no morphological feature has been discovered which distinguishes them as separate species.
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SPRENT, J. Anatomical Distinction between Human and Pig Strains of Ascaris. Nature 170, 627–628 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170627b0
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