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Mass Isolation and In Vitro Cultivation of Intramolluscan Stages of the Human Blood Fluke Schistosoma Mansoni
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Developmental Biology
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JoVE Journal Developmental Biology
Mass Isolation and In Vitro Cultivation of Intramolluscan Stages of the Human Blood Fluke Schistosoma Mansoni
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12:05 min

January 14, 2018

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  • 00:00Title
  • 03:18Processing of infected livers
  • 05:05Liver extraction and miracidial isolation
  • 08:06Miracidial harvesting and cultivation
  • 10:14Results
  • 10:49Conclusion

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This article describes a protocol for the large-scale axenic isolation and collection of free-swimming miracidia of the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni and their subsequent processing for introduction into in vitro culture.

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