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The Metropolitan Police Act established to replace the local watch and constable system in the London area

A 45 yr old male presents with muscle pain after going hunting and eating bear meat.  A muscle biopsy demonstrates the presence of encysted larvae.  The most likely identification is:

Slave patrols in the South were seen as the first police force in the United States?  

The following eggs possess an operculum:

A sheathed microfilarial worm is described as being approximately 250 um long with a distinct continuous row of nuclei that extends to the tip of the tail.  What is the vector for this infection?

This worm’s egg has various forms: fertilized, unfertilized, mamillated, and decorticated.

A patient came to the emergency room with jaundice and abdominal pain.  Liver enzymes were elevated but testing for viral hepatitis was negative.  Stool samples revealed a large (70×140 um), brown, operculated egg with no knob at the opposite end.  What is the most likely occupation of this patient?

A 4-year-old boy attended day care 3 days per week. He was irritable and his parents noticed that he had persistent perianal itching. A sticky paddle was pressed against the perianal region and sent to the laboratory for testing. The eggs observed would most likely have which one of the following microscopic morphologic features?

Banishment was designed to make an individual suffer and seen as a more severe punishment in society than death?  

Karl Marx believed the “Industrial Age”