Modified sugar centrifugal flotation technique for recovering Echinococcus multilocularis eggs from soil

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 208-209

  Matsuo, Kayoko ^a   Kamiya, Haruo ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG; EXTRACTION METHOD; PARASITE; SOIL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; LUNG HYDATID CYST; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PREVALENCE; SOIL POLLUTION; SUCROSE DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; FOX; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; PARASITOLOGY; RELATIVE DENSITY; SOIL;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; WORLD;

ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; TAENIIDAE;

SUCROSE;

ANIMALS; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; FOXES; HUMANS; OVUM; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SOIL; SPECIFIC GRAVITY; SUCROSE;

EID: 17844362714     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3388RN     Document Type: Article

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