Wegdan Mohamed Abdelwahab  <br/><br/>
Evaluation of different techniques for the fixation and staining of intestinal protozoa in faecal specimens /  
 تقييم تقنيات مختلفة لتثبيت وصباغة الاوليات المعوية فى عينات البراز 
Wegdan Mohamed Abdelwahab ; Supervised Mona Mahmoud Ali , Safeya Omar Elbassiouni , Hanaa Mohamed Ezzat Moussa 
 - Cairo :   Wegdan Mohamed Abdelwahab ,   2009 
 - 149P. :   facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Parasitology 
<br/><br/> For decades formalin and mercuric chloride -based-polyvinyl alcolhol (PVA) have been the two standard fixatives used by most laboratories for preservation of helminth eggs and protozoan cysts and trophozoites in faecal specimens . Concerns about the toxicity of formalin and difficulty of disposal of PVA were powerful incentives to use alternate preservatives 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Acetic acid formalin Intestinal protozoa  Sodium acetate