Yousefi, Elham

Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of public health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

[ 1 ] - Differentiation of prevalent parasite from artifacts in parasitology laboratory

One of the common problems in the medical parasitology laboratory is the differentiation of parasites from other elements in the stool and body fluids so-called "artifacts". Artifacts generally referred to living or abiotic agents that embedded in the clinical sample and may misleading the lab because of their similarity to parasitic organisms. Artifacts are an integral part of the diagnosis pr...