• DOI:10.7589/0090-3558-23.4.558
Corpus ID: 13454107

QUANTIFICATION OF HEMATOZOA IN BLOOD SMEARS

@inproceedings{Godfrey1987QUANTIFICATIONOH,
  title={QUANTIFICATION OF HEMATOZOA IN BLOOD SMEARS},
  author={R. D. Godfrey and A. Fedynich and D. Pence},
  booktitle={Journal of wildlife diseases},
  year={1987}
}

R. D. Godfrey, A. Fedynich, D. Pence

Published in Journal of wildlife diseases 1987

Biology, Medicine

Ten thin blood smears from mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) infected with Haemoproteus maccallumi were examined by each of two observers using identical techniques and microscopy in an attempt to delineate the factors necessary to provide an accurate estimate of the number of parasites/n erythrocytes. The number of erythrocytes examined must be actually counted, not estimated from extrapolated partial counts or from the number of fields of view examined. Doubling the number of erythrocytes… CONTINUE READING

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