Introduction to Diagnostic Medical Parasitology
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Key Diagnostic Features
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Exercises
Key Diagnostik Features
Microfilariae
Diagnostic features
(pay regard to the location of microfilariae in the host and their periodicity)
- size and morphology
- location in the host
- absence/ presence of a sheath
- posterior end (shape and arrangement of nuclei in the tip of the tail)
- anterior end (“cephalic space”, location of nuclei)
