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Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology Volume 78, 1984 - Issue 6
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Precipitates found around Schistosoma haematobium eggs from human urine prior to circumoval precipitin test

D. K. KoechClinical Research Centre, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya;Division of Vector Borne Diseases, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya
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M. HirataCommunicable Diseases Control and Research Project, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya;Department of Parasitology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan
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M. ShimadaDepartment of Parasitology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan;Department of Parasitology, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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E. WambayiDivision of Vector Borne Diseases, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya
Pages 627-632 | Received 31 Mar 1983, Published online: 15 Nov 2016

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