title: An improved kit for culturing clean nematode, larvae from faeces.
abstract: A kit for rapid recovery of clean hookworm and Strongyloides stercoralis larvae from faeces was devised. It consists of a 2.0dl perspex cup shaped container 35 x 30 x 24mm in size. A horse shoe stirrup aluminium sheet 54mm long and 20mm wide is inserted into the container so that the free ends stand at the bottom of the apparatus. The back of the stirrup carries a plastic disc 30mm in diameter through which two adjacent crescent shaped openings are cut. A strip of filter paper 40 x 20mm in size passes through the crescent openings astride the stirrup and its loose ends are bound together by means of a stapler. When the kit is assembled, the disk fits firmly in the middle of the container dividing it into lower and upper chambers. The staples free ends of the filter paper hang immersed into water in the lower chamber of the apparatus. A faecal sample is smeared on the upper part of the filter paper. Nematode larvae, if present, crawl from the faeces down the damp filter paper into the water at the bottom of the container.
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Ndalahwa
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Lwambo
mesh_terms: D000723:Ancylostomatoidea / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000818:Animals; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology*; D013321:Strongyloides / Q000302:isolation & purification*