Thick stool smear wet mount examination: a new approach in stool microscopy.
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.
Parija
Subhash Chandra
SC
Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Pondicherry 605 006, India. parijasc@vsnl.com
Bhattacharya
Sanjay
S
Padhan
Prasant
P
D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology*; D006801:Humans; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008853:Microscopy / Q000379:methods*; D010270:Parasite Egg Count / Q000379:methods*