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A description of four Filaria loa from the same patient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

O. V. Huffman
Affiliation:
(From the Laboratory of the Cincinnati Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.)
Wm B. Wherry
Affiliation:
(From the Laboratory of the Cincinnati Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.)

Extract

A comparison of the descriptions of the morphological characteristics of Filaria loa by previous authors shows differences which are explained by the study of our uninjured specimens. We have prepared a table (q.v.) which shows the results of the work of various observers together with our own. We believe that most of the drawings so far published are somewhat misleading; we have, therefore, drawn the essential parts as seen through the microscope with an entire diameter and a portion of a longitudinal section in focus. The drawings are not composite or schematic but have been made on a large scale with accuracy in the measurements so as to represent the different parts in proper proportion (see Plate).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1911

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