Case report
A 12-year-old Sudanese girl come to our clinic at 2022 presented with chronic diarrhea (4-5) times per day for more than one year she doesn’t diagnose as she has intestinal trematodes, On physical examination, she has a good appetite, abdominal pain, after meals quick needs a bath for defecation, she appears pale and underweight. Laboratory investigation showed normal white cell count of 4500/cmm, and mild anemia Hb 9g/dl the stool was requested for examination, the stool loose contains large particles seen macroscopically as undigested food. Two separate techniques as available in our lab, direct saline wet preparation and formal ether concentration technique was performed. on direct wet preparation examined firstly with low power field a nine trematode segments with scolex, neck, (13-17) uterus branch, scorpion- like tails, were seen accidentally in one field figure (1). On formal ether concentration technique there is no eggs of any parasite but many starch cells were showed, and yeasts over growth. The patient was treated with 400 mg mebendazole immediately and after one week, and come for follow-up after one month and there is no segments nor eggs, she appears well and she start tonics for anaemia.