A method for the isolation of schistosome eggs and miracidia free of contaminating host tissues

Parasitology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-32

  Dalton, J P ^a,b,c   Day, S R ^a   Drew, A C ^a   Brindley, P J ^a  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^c Australian Ctr Intl Trop Hlth N   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eggs; Miracidia; Schistosoma japonicum; Schistosoma mansoni

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIVER DISEASE; MIRACIDIUM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, HELMINTH; LIVER; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVUM; PARASITOLOGY; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI;

ANIMALIA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI;

EID: 0030837097     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182097001091     Document Type: Article

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