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Plant Root Hair in Tap Water: A Potential Cause for Diagnostic Confusion

Plant root hairs are commonly found artifacts in parasitology specimens and may be confused with helminthes by an untrained eye. We report a case of brain tuberculoma where the tissue sample was contaminated with root hair derived from tap water; the presence of this root hair, which mimicked a larv...

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Autores principales: Shakoor, Sadia, Wasay, Mohammad, Zafar, Afia, Beg, Mohammad Asim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21239870
http://dx.doi.org/10.3343/kjlm.2011.31.1.44