A Clinical Evaluation of the Efficacy of Mebendazole in the Treatment of Trichuriasis

Rg, Sargent; Td, Dotterer; Am, Savory; Pr, Lee

doi:10.1097/00007611-197501000-00011

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“…and Ascaris (Stephenson et al, 1989), mebendazole against Trichuris (Sargent et al, 1975), pyrantel and piperazine against Ascaris (Bell, Nassif, 1971), and tetramizole against Ascaris, hookworms and Enterobius (Thienpont et al, 1969). In all aforementioned studies, the McMaster technique was used in the areas with a high prevalence of parasitic infections and high parasite and egg loads per patient.…”

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Use of modified McMaster method for the diagnosis of intestinal helminth infections and estimating parasitic egg load in human faecal samples in non-endemic areas

Bondarenko

Kinčeková²,

Várady³

et al. 2009

Helminthologia

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A modified McMaster method has been used for the diagnosis and estimating helminth egg load in human faecal samples obtained from random consecutive patients in the areas non-endemic for helminth infections (Slovak Republic, North West Russia). Both positive and negative findings were in a 100 % concordance to those obtained with a reference method accepted in clinical diagnostic laboratories (microscopy of the native stool smear). The McMaster method was efficient in detecting nematode eggs in patients' stool samples with egg load varying from very low (15 -60 epg for T. trichiura) to moderate (1650 -4500 epg for A. lumbricoides). Therefore, this method may be successfully (and with a better technical feasibility) used for the diagnosis of intestinal helminth infections in non-endemic areas, with further quantitative analysis of the sample when required.

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