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incubation techniques for hookworm larvae

Saturday, February 28, 2009

I’m researching incubation methods, and hopefully in a few weeks I will embark on my first McMaster egg count. There seem to be 3 choices for incubating the hookworm larvae; the Baermann, Harada-Mori, and the AP method (agar plate.) Here’s a nice visual and thorough list of requirements for the first two methods: http://books.google.com/books?id=8AWz0cS6e9kC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq#PPA115,M1 This [...]

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Columbia transcript on Hookworms

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/ps/2007/para/old/transcript_02_pd02.pdf A little more information about hookworms and the hookworm eradication project… Is this true about the males? That they detach after mating; I wonder how the life cycle would continue then.

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