Quantative assesment of kato-katz thick smear and formol-ether concentration technique for the diagnosis of Ascaris lumbricoides
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Comparison of the Formalin- Ether and the Katz Kato in The Parasitological Diagnosis of Human Fascioliasis
ABSTRACT Human fascioliasis is an endemic disease in the Guillan province and it has became a public health problem in the port of Anzali. Thousands of people in this area were infected during the two outbreaks in 1987 and 1998. If the mature worm settles in the liver, finding the ova in the stool is the most reliable diagnosis of the infection. Therefore selecting the most sensitive parasito...
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عنوان ژورنال: Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2408-8501,1021-2787
DOI: 10.3329/dujbs.v24i1.46310