Comparison of Four Parasitological Techniques for Laboratory Diagnosis of Eggs from Spirometra spp. in Wild Mammal Fecal Samples.
Laís Verdan DibJoão Pedro Siqueira PalmerCamila de Souza Carvalho Class de LimaRaissa Cristina Ferreira RamosOtilio Machado Pereira BastosClaudia Maria Antunes UchôaMaria Regina Reis AmendoeiraAna Beatriz Monteiro FonsecaAugusto Cezar Machado Pereira BastosAlynne da Silva BarbosaPublished in: Acta parasitologica (2019)
From these results, sedimentation techniques such as modified Ritchie and Lutz methods were more efficient for diagnosing the eggs of this helminth in fecal material from free-living carnivores and should always be used when analyzing fecal samples from hosts of different species.
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