[An evaluation of the efficacy of the CSF method for diagnosing intestinal helminthiases].
The recently proposed CSF method for diagnosing intestinal helminthiases was compared with the other methods (direct; Faust et al.; spontaneous sedimentation in water; and Kato-Katz) that are routinely for this purpose. The CSF method performed satisfactorily, thus showing that this technique can be adopted for use in diagnoses or epidemiological analyses.
Alarcón
Ruth Semira Rodriguez
RS
Laboratório de Investigação Médica, Parasitologia do Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Amato Neto
Vicente
V
Gakiya
Erika
E
Bezerra
Rita Cristina
RC
D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology*; D006373:Helminthiasis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010270:Parasite Egg Count / Q000379:methods*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity