Dientamoeba fragilis: Is it really fragile? Approach to the treatment of the specimen and fast microscopic diagnosis;Dientamoeba fragilis: È realmente fragile? Approccio al trattamento del campione e diagnosi rapida al microscopio

Parassitologia

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-22

  De Canale, E ^a,b   Tessari, A ^a   Campion, L ^a   Rossi, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b AO di Padova   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dientamoeba fragilis; Golf club; Persistence; Prevalence; Rapid diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIENTAMOEBA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FECES ANALYSIS; FUNGAL DETECTION; GIEMSA STAIN; LABORATORY TEST; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PROTOZOON; SMEAR; TROPHOZOITE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; FECES; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; SARCOMASTIGOPHORA INFECTION; STAINING; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DIENTAMOEBA FRAGILIS; PROTOZOA;

FIXATIVE;

ANIMALS; AZURE STAINS; DIENTAMOEBA; DIENTAMOEBIASIS; FECES; FIXATIVES; HUMANS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STAINING AND LABELING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4444382835     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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