General approaches for detection and identification of parasites

Manual of Clinical Microbiology: Tenth Edition

Volumn 2-2, Issue , 2022, Pages 2071-2090

  Garcia, Lynne S ^a   Shimizu, Robyn Y ^b   Paltridge, Graeme P ^c  

^a LSG and Associates   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Blood films; Direct wet mount method; Immunoassay detection methods; Parasites; Permanent stained smear

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905276630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1128/9781555816728.ch132     Document Type: Chapter

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