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Bench Aids
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Filariasis
The following Bench Aids for the diagnosis of filarial infections appear on this site courtesy of the World Health Organization.  The print quality of these PDF files do not show the finer details of the originals.  If you are interested in obtaining hard copies of these bench aids, please see WHO's bookstore website for further details (http://www.who.int/bookorders/index.htm).

• Introduction and Characteristics of common human filarial parasites
• Plate 1 — Wuchereria bancrofti, Loa loa
• Plate 2 — Brugia malayi, Brugia timori
• Plate 3 — Mansonella perstans, Mansonella ozzardi
• Plate 4 — Techniques, artefacts, oddities
• Plate 5 — Onchocerca volvulus, Mansonella streptocerca

Malaria
The following bench aids are a product of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

• Comparison of the Plasmodium Species Which Cause Human Malaria
• Plasmodium spp. Blood Stage Parasites, Thick Blood Smears
• Plasmodium spp. Blood Stage Parasites, Thin Blood Smears

The following bench aid was developed for the Democratic Republic of Congo by the National Malaria Control Program of that country, with assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and United States Agency for International Development.

• Planches pour le Diagnostic microscopique du paludisme