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Psorospermium haeckelii: a cause of pseudoparasitosis
1Baylor College of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Tex, USA.
Southern Medical Journal
|March 10, 2001
Abstract:
A 42-year-old man had nausea, vomiting, periumbilical pain, tenesmus, and diarrhea shortly after eating seafood. Stool microscopy showed "beaver bodies," or Psorospermium haeckelii, a nonpathogenic algal organism often confused with enteric pathogens and commonly found in the excrement of persons consuming crayfish.