Laboratory diagnosis of filariasis.
Eberhard ML, Lammie PJ.
Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia.
In this article, the authors describe how to detect blood-borne and skin-dwelling filarial infections parasitologically. Considerable space is devoted to identifying and separating microfilarial from nonparasite objects, and the evaluation of morphologic features, including size, shape, and internal anatomy is stressed.
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PMID: 1802532 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]