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Microscopy - practice

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Microscopy - practice

How to use the resources in this section

The learning resources in this section will help you with your parasitology/entomology diagnostic skills. The
image banks are grouped by mayor topics. Additional learning resources including microscopy bench aids and
links to public image banks are also provided.

DTMH - Microscopy training - documents

These documents are different for each of the training hubs. Please checkout the folder that is relevant for
you.

Glasgow microscopy training - manuals and documents

This folder contains the documents you received during your Glasgow microscopy training weeks.

Jakarta microscopy training - manuals and documents

This folder contains the documents you received during your Jakarta microscopy training weeks documents will be
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added at around the time of the training course.

 Blantyre microscopy training - manuals and documents

This folder contains the documents you received during your Blantyre microscopy training weeks - documents
will be added at around the time of the training course.

Kuala Lumpur microscopy training - manuals and documents

This folder contains the documents you received during your Kuala Lumpur microscopy training weeks documents
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will be added at around the time of the training course.

DTMH image banks

These are the collated image banks from the relevant course topics for quick access

Morphology of malaria parasites and their mosquito vectors

Morphology of African trypanosomes and the tsetse fly

Morphology of American trypanosomes and reduvid bugs

Morphology of intestinal protozoan parasites

Morphology of leishmania parasites and sand flies

Morphology of food-borne trematodes

Morphology of soil transmitted helminths

Morphology of schistosomes and their snail vectors

Morphology of filarial worms and their arthropod vectors

 Morphology of tapeworms

WHO - Bench Aids for the diagnosis of intestinal parasites

WHO - Bench Aids for the diagnosis of intestinal parasites

Tropical Health Technology: learning bench aids (microscopy manuals)

These resources may be useful to help you revise your parasitology diagnostic skills.

Malaria (Tropical Health Technology: learning bench aids (microscopy manuals))

Malaria (Tropical Health Technology: learning bench aids (microscopy manuals)) (copy)

Lymphatic filariasis, loiasis, onchocerciasis

African trypanosomiases, American trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis

Meningitis, tuberculosis, leprosy, Aids, gonorrhoea, syphilis, chlamydia,

Intestinal helminth infections

Amoebiasis, giardiasis, cryptosporidium and isospora

Microscopy of blood

Microscopy of urine

Relative helminth egg sizes

 Stool morphology comparison tables - intestinal parasites

Open access image banks for practice

These links take you to open source online image banks where you can practice you parasite identification
skills. Some of these sites offer quizzes, others are purely for study.

CDC Parasite Database

ParasiteWonders Blog: Parasites A-to-Z

Kansas State University Parasitology Tutorials

Microscopy - basics Revision quizzes

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