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We’re on our own in the US with worms

Monday, February 8, 2010

Looks like Jasper of AIT can’t ship hookworms or whipworms to the US because of legal reasons.  Wormtherapy is still offering hookworms, but you have to go to San Diego then Tijuana to get them.  I’d like to collect an aggregate of information on hookworm incubation methods here, so we can learn from one another’s [...]

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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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