The fluorescent acid-fast stain, auramine-O, stains schistosome eggs and may be an aid for detection. An old technique with a useful future?

Thomas Hanscheid Soraia Vieira Pedro Ferreira Tânia Carvalho Silvana Belo Martin P Grobusch

Travel Med Infect Dis

Center for Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Published: June 2021

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