Abstract:
:Microscopic examination of a wet mount of the stool has been the standard practice for the laboratory diagnosis of intestinal parasitic infections. Here we describe a novel method of stool microscopy of 80 stool samples, 31 (38.75%) were positive by the new thick stool smear wet mount method, whereas the corresponding figure for the conventional method using lacto-phenol cotton blue was 16 (20%). The difference was found to be statistically significant (P < 0.04 by McNemar's test). The thick stool smear wet mount procedure promises to be superior to the direct wet mount method in the detection of the intestinal parasites.
journal_name
Trop Doctjournal_title
Tropical doctorauthors
Parija SC,Bhattacharya S,Padhan Pdoi
10.1177/004947550303300320subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2003-07-01 00:00:00pages
173issue
3eissn
0049-4755issn
1758-1133journal_volume
33pub_type
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