Detection of Giardia trophozoites in archival pathology specimens of human small intestine

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 397-403

  Macechko, P Timothy ^a   Van Keulen, Harry ^b   Jarroll, Edward L ^c   Mulgrew, Thomas ^a   Gurien, Andrew ^a   Erlandsen, Stanley L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster projectiles; Confocal scanning laser microscopy; Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM); Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH); Giardia; In situ hybridization (ISH); Polyatomic projectiles; rDNA probes; Recombination processes; Secondary ion mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032275460     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927698980370     Document Type: Article

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