Short report: An agar plate method for culturing hookworm larvae: Analysis of growth kinetics and infectivity compared with standard coproculture techniques

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1087-1090

  Reiss, Daniel ^a,b   Harrison, Lisa M ^a,b   Bungiro, Richard ^a,b   Cappello, Michael ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Yale Child Health Research Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ANCYLOSTOMA CEYLANICUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH RATE; HOOKWORM; HOST; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARVA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAMSTER; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; TIME;

ANCYLOSTOMA CEYLANICUM; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALIA;

AGAR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CRICETINAE; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; LARVA; MALE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 39049110717     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2007.77.1087     Document Type: Article

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