Quantitative Hookworm Diagnosis by Direct Smear
- 1 April 1949
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Parasitology
- Vol. 35 (2) , 125-135
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3273114
Abstract
The direct fecal smear was standardized by using a photoelectric type of light meter to measure its density (turbidity). The distr. of eggs of Necator americanus is sufficiently random in the normal stool to make egg-counts in the standard smear as reliable as dilution counts for the detn. of worm burden.Keywords
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