I have access to a centrifuge, what is the procedure for using it for fecal floats? Is the sugar solution really better than Fecasol, and is it available commercially? I need all the help I can get with parasites, and if I have a centrifuge in my name then I would like to be able to use it!
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• How do you perform a fecal float?? - snake_love, Mon Feb 16 13:29:04 2004
• RE: How do you perform a fecal float?? - oldherper, Mon Feb 16 15:31:03 2004
• RE: How do you perform a fecal float?? - chas*e, Mon Feb 16 16:57:38 2004
• RE: How do you perform a fecal float?? - Colchicine, Tue Feb 17 19:41:19 2004
• RE: How do you perform a fecal float?? - oldherper, Tue Feb 17 23:23:37 2004
• RE: How do you perform a fecal float?? - moorear, Wed Feb 18 10:42:48 2004
• Centrifuge method - Colchicine, Wed Feb 18 18:36:58 2004