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Adult male whipworm (Trichuris muris) partially embedded within its epithelial niche.
Adult male Trichuris muris parasite shown partly removed from its epithelial niche within the gut. Individual cells of the stichosome are clearly visible within the long thin whip-like anterior which is normally embedded within the gut epithelial cells of the host. The image was generated by X-ray micro-computed tomography after staining with osmium tetroxide. Partridge et al.
Image Credit: Kathryn Else / The image was generated with assistance provided by the Manchester X-ray Imaging Facility (Julia Behnsen), which was funded in part by the EPSRC (grants EP/F007906/1, EP/F001452/1 and EP/I02249X/1), and the EM facility within the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester.
Citation: (2017) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 11(2) February 2017. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 11(2): ev11.i02. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v11.i02
Published: February 28, 2017
Copyright: © 2017 Else. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Adult male Trichuris muris parasite shown partly removed from its epithelial niche within the gut. Individual cells of the stichosome are clearly visible within the long thin whip-like anterior which is normally embedded within the gut epithelial cells of the host. The image was generated by X-ray micro-computed tomography after staining with osmium tetroxide. Partridge et al.
Image Credit: Kathryn Else / The image was generated with assistance provided by the Manchester X-ray Imaging Facility (Julia Behnsen), which was funded in part by the EPSRC (grants EP/F007906/1, EP/F001452/1 and EP/I02249X/1), and the EM facility within the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester.