Laboratory facilities:

Medical Parasitology Departments contains:

- Three labs for under-graduate students, supplied with dissecting and light electric microscopes, boards, computers, and data shows.

- Two labs for post-graduate and research studies, containing the following equipments:

• Centrifuges.
• Vacuum pump.
• Autoclave.
• Hot oven.
• Thermolyne hot plate.
• Magnetic hot plate.
• Spectrophotometer.
• Vertical electrophoresis.
• Thermal cycler.
• pH meters.
• Speed vortex mixer.
• Microscopes.
• Microscope camera.
• Incubator.
• ELISA machine.
• Semi-automated analyzer chemistry.

Laboratory services:

We can afford the following laboratory tests:

• Stool examination:
• Using different concentration techniques (sedimentation and flotation) e.g. formalin-ethyl acetate sedimentation andzinc sulfate flotation concentration.
• Stained smears using iodine and trichromestains, and staining with Ziehl-Neelsen acid-fast stain, modified Kinyoun’s acid-fast stain, Carbol fuchsin negative stain, safranin stain, Auramine O stain, and modified trichrome stain to detect intestinal coccidian infection (Cryptosporidium parvum,Cystoisosporabelli, Cyclospora cayetanensis).
• Kato-katz thick smear for quantitative detection of parasitic infections.
• Preparation of thin and thick blood films, staining with Giemsa andLeishman stains, and microscopic examination for suspected cases of malaria,leishmaniasis, or Bancroftian filariasis, upon referral from Tropical Medicine Department.
• Microscopic examination of different samples from immunosuppressed adultsand pediatric patients (e.g. bone marrow transplant recipientsand cancer patients) for opportunistic parasites, e.g. Toxoplasma gondii, Cryptosporidium parvum, Cystoisosporabelli,andCyclospora cayetanensis.
• Immunoassay techniques, e.g. ELISA, IHA.
• Parasitological cultures.