Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy as a Useful Tool for Taxonomical Documentation of Parasitical Helminths

0465201 - ÚPT 2017 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Tihlaříková, Eva - Neděla, Vilém - Mašová, Š.
Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy as a Useful Tool for Taxonomical Documentation of Parasitical Helminths.
Microscopy and Microanalysis. Roč. 22, S3 (2016), s. 1178-1179. ISSN 1431-9276. E-ISSN 1435-8115
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA14-22777S
Institutional support: RVO:68081731
Keywords : parasitical Helminths * ESEM * taxonomical documentation
Subject RIV: JA - Electronics ; Optoelectronics, Electrical Engineering
Impact factor: 1.891, year: 2016

Helminthiases are parasitic infections which may cause important diseases. Their research by veterinary and medical scientists is very important for this reason. The most commonly used method for parasitological studies is scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Sometimes conventional SEM is not acceptable because only a small number or only one sample of a rare parasite is available. The purpose of this work is to show the results of unique observations of basics groups of helminth parasites (roundworms, tapeworms, flukes and spiny headed worms) by environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM) with minimal shape and volume deformations. We also show the advantages of studying of these specific types of biological samples in controlled dynamically changing conditions in the specimen chamber of a non-commercial ESEM AQUASEM II.
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