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The reliability of the current diagnostic methods for the identification of helminth eggs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Shooji Moriya
Shooji Moriya
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health, Osaka City Medical School, Asahi-cho, Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan
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1. On the assumption that the limit of significant difference is 1%, it is necessary, when concentration methods are not used, to repeat the faecal examination 3 times for the egg of Ascaris lumbricoides, 7 times for hook worm and 11 times for Trichuris trichiura in order to obtain the diagnostic results obtained by the acid-ether concentration technique using 3 g. of faeces.

2. The coefficient of the identification by a single smear examination is 83·3% for eggs of Ascaris lumbricoides, 46·5% for hook-worm eggs and 33·6% for eggs of Trichuris trichiura.

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Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 44 , Issue 3-4 , November 1954 , pp. 300 - 303
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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