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Stickleback with eyes grossly distended due to trematode metacercariae.

Host: 

threespine stickleback

Host tissue: 

eyes

Photographer / Illustrator: 

Stephen Atkinson

Pathogen life stage: 

metacercaria

Image type: 

Regular photograph
Stickleback with eyes grossly distended due to trematode metacercariae.
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