Improvement in the identification of intestinal parasites by a concentrated merthiolate-iodine-formaldehyde technique

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 457-458

  Wang, Lian Chen ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; IODINE; METHIONINE;

ARTICLE; ENTAMOEBA; FECES ANALYSIS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTESTINE PARASITE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SCREENING TEST; TAIWAN;

ACETATES; ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; FECES; FORMALDEHYDE; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; IODINE; MASS SCREENING; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; PROTOZOA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAIWAN; THIMEROSAL;

EID: 0031968257     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284514     Document Type: Article

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