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Xeroradiographic visualization of trichinae in polar bear muscle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

G. S. Nelson ,
I. F. Keymer ,
Rosemary Rogers  and
R. Davis
G. S. Nelson
Affiliation:
Depart of Medical Helminthology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WCIE 7HT
I. F. Keymer
Affiliation:
The Zoological Society of London, Pathology Department Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY
Rosemary Rogers
Affiliation:
Depart of Medical Helminthology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WCIE 7HT
R. Davis
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden Hospital, London SW7
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Abstract

Gould (1970) stated that “asyet,roentgenographic technics cannot demonstrate trichinae in skeletal muscle”. We have found no report of X-ray film demonstration of Trichinella cysts in muscle in the literature to date. Rogers et al. (1975) used the technique of xeroradiography to show living and calcified filarial worms (Brugia pahangi) in the infected lymphatics of cats and we have had an opportunity to use this method to examine calcified Trichinella cysts in infected muscle.

Type
Research Note
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , December 1975 , pp. 301 - 302
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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