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Original Articles

A New Technique for the Concentration of Microfilariae from the Venous Blood, and Its Application to their Detection in Persons Harbouring them in Low Density; Together with Observations on the Significance of Such Low Densities

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Pages 80-95 | Received 27 Jan 1955, Published online: 17 Mar 2016

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