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The Kurloff-body, a spurious parasite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Otto V. Huffman
Otto V. Huffman
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(From the Laboratories of the Cincinnati Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A..)
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Twenty years or more have passed since Kurloff first observed certain vacuoles or cell enclosures in the protoplasm of the large mononuclear leucocytes of the guinea-pig while working in Ehrlich's laboratory. Since then improved staining methods and discoveries in the field of protozoology have made it possible to take new view-points in regard to these cell enclosures which are called Kurloff's-bodies. Therefore it is not with surprise that we find Ferrata, Patella, Goldhorn, Schilling and others believing these bodies to be protozoan in nature. Patella however is the only one who claims to have observed a flagellate develop from a Kurloff-body and of course this observation would put an end to all dispute if it could be verified.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , December 1911 , pp. 457 - 462
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1911

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