Journal of Helminthology

Table of Contents - 1993 - Volume 67, Issue 01  

Research Note

Comparative study of two methods for the diagnosis of Enterobius vermicularis in the appendix

Abdulhossein Dalimia1 and Faryba Khoshzabana1

a1 Parasitology Department, Medical School, Tarbiat Modarres University, PO Box 14155-4838, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

A total of 1590 human appendices were collected and examined histologically for evidence of pinworm infection. The incidence of infection in appendices was 2·39%. In examining 100 appendices by both the histological and the parasitological methods, 3 and 7 samples respectively were seen to be infected by pinworm.

(Accepted November 11 1992)

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