Replacing critical point drying with hexamethyldisilazane drying enhances the ultrastructural preservation of cell surface projections in the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis for scanning electron microscopy

• Tuanne dos Santos Melo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Fiocruz, Programa de Pós-graduação em Biociências e Biotecnologia em Saúde, Instituto Aggeu Magalhães, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Abigail Miranda-Magalhães,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Fiocruz, Programa de Pós-graduação em Biociências e Biotecnologia em Saúde, Instituto Aggeu Magalhães, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Regina Celia Bressan Queiroz de Figueiredo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Regina Celia Bressan Queiroz de Figueiredo, Antonio Pereira-Neves

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: antonio.neves@fiocruz.br (AP-N); regina.bressan@fiocruz.br (RCBQF)

  Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia, Fiocruz, Instituto Aggeu Magalhães, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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• Antonio Pereira-Neves

  Contributed equally to this work with: Regina Celia Bressan Queiroz de Figueiredo, Antonio Pereira-Neves

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: antonio.neves@fiocruz.br (AP-N); regina.bressan@fiocruz.br (RCBQF)

  Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia, Fiocruz, Instituto Aggeu Magalhães, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6629-568X

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