A simple, robust and semi-automated parasite egg isolation protocol

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 486-489

  Mes, Ted H M ^a   Eysker, Maarten ^b   Ploeger, Harm W ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CENTRIFUGATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); COOPERIA ONCOPHORA; DENSITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FECES ANALYSIS; FLOTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAEMONCHUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROTITER PLATE ASSAY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; STRONGYLOIDEA; SUSPENSION; TIME; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FECES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CENTRIFUGATION; FECES; NEMATODA; OVUM; PARASITE EGG COUNT;

EID: 34347260701     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.56     Document Type: Article

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