This term describes the finding of eggs of Capillaria hepatica in stools of humans who have eaten raw liver of infected animals. Since these eggs had not yet been embryonated, a patent infection did not occur. These eggs had just been passed with human feces and were found in stool diagnostics.
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Mehlhorn, H. (2016). Spurious Infections. In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43978-4_4347
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