Please help identify this parasite

gothra

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I did another fecal last night, looks like the panacur isn't much help in eliminating this type of parasite, but my vet doesn't know what it is (I showed her the pics I took last time). Can someone please help me identify it? Or if you have a vet friend, can you please ask for me?

Description: Its about the same size as a pinworm egg, with slightly thinner shell. Its nucleus can split into 2 or 3 perfect circlular nucleus (I witnessed the nucleus making change last night). I checked Dr. Klingenberg's book and chart, they mostly resemble a pinworm egg; could it be another type of unknown pinworm egg that requires a bit more time to eliminate?

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The above parasitic egg has ONE circular nucleus, then after about 5 minutes, it looked like its nucleus is about to spawn another circle:

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I also found others with 2 or 3 nucleus (mostly 2 nucleus):
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(this pic was taken last time)

Any idea what they could be? I started treating them with panacur since 9th January, but still found quite a few of them last night, in fact, I found more of these than before. Thanks.
 

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Bonnie, I just got the reply from Dr. Harkewicz and he identified the oocysts to be oxyuruid (pinworm) eggs. It can take several rounds of Panacur to eradicate since they shed at 10-14 day intervals.
 

gothra

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Oh wow!! Its such great relief for me to know that they're just pinworms!! I was super worried that they are some unusual parasite that is hard to get rid of! Thankyou so much Marcia, and please pass a thankyou to Dr. Harkewicz for me!!

A bit of update on my geckos: I realised that maybe only just one of my geckos has pins (Gel), not all of them has it. Since I do combined fecals, I only find pinworm eggs whenever I add Gel's poop in it. Otherwise, the fecals are negative.
 

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