New species:Trichuris landak n. sp, what is its medical implication?

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To the editor,The report on discovery of a new nematode species,Trichuris landak n.sp,which has just been published in Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine,is very interesting[1].Purwaningsih mentioned for the isolation of such new species from local Indonesian landak.The morphological and anatomical parameters of the new species have been presented in the discovery report[1].This is an important paper in tropical parasitology.Indeed,some Trichuris species were found such as Trichuris muris,Trichuris ovis and Trichuris parvispicularis as early as 1788,1795,1908 and 1916[1].Trichuris landak has not been