Improvement of a tissue maceration technique for the determination of placental involvement in schistosomiasis

• Martha Charlotte Holtfreter,

  Affiliation Tropical Medicine Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Heinrich Neubauer,

  Affiliation Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Jena, Germany

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• Tanja Groten,

  Affiliation Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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• Hosny El-Adawy,

  Affiliation Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Jena, Germany

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• Jana Pastuschek,

  Affiliation Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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• Joachim Richter,

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Public Health, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany

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• Dieter Häussinger,

  Affiliation Tropical Medicine Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Mathias Wilhelm Pletz,

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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• Benjamin Thomas Schleenvoigt

  * E-mail: Benjamin.Schleenvoigt@med.uni-jena.de

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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