Diagnosis of Oesophagostomum bifurcum and hookworm infection in humans: Day-to-day and within-specimen variation of larval counts

Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 283-288

  Pit, D S S ^a   De Graaf, W ^a   Snoek, H ^a   De Vlas, S J ^c   Baeta, S M ^b   Polderman, A M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LOMÉ   (Togo)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Coproculture; Day to day variation; Hookworm; Oesophagostomum bifurcum; Within specimen variation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FECES CULTURE; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 0033032924     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182098003849     Document Type: Article

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