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Languages: English. Cabot Creamery is recalling 1,700 pounds of butter after testing found elevated levels of coliform bacteria in the product, a marker of potential fecal contamination.

Oliphant's research focused exclusively on helminth parasites, which can be found in the owls' intestinal tract. Six different subspecies of these parasites, including the neodiplostomum delicatum, ...

Fecal examination by rapid sedimentation of Lumbreras showed hookworm eggs and few adult parasites (Fig. 2). Colonoscopy was performed where dead parasites were found without neoplastic lesions. Fig.