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Title: | The detection of Cryptosporidium spp. in the feces of a preschool population: a comparison of 5 staining methods | Authors: | Martín Sánchez, A. M. Rodríguez Hernández, J. Canut Blasco, A. Dovigo Prieto, C. |
UNESCO Clasification: | 32 Ciencias médicas 3205 Medicina interna |
Issue Date: | 1993 | Journal: | Revista clínica española (Ed. impresa) | Abstract: | The usefulness of five dying techniques to detect oocysts of Cryptosporidium spp in stools is evaluated in a healthy children preschool population, taking from a smear of the sediment obtained in the formalin-ether concentration technique (Ritchie's test). 10 positive stool samples were detected of a total of 115 samples (8.7%). Dying with Lugol the sediment of Ritchie's test only detected 40% of positive samples. Modified Ziehl-Neelsen dye, auramine dye and indirect immunofluorescence dye with monoclonal antibodies, yielded an excellent diagnostic correlation (each of them detected 90% of the positive samples). Indirect immunofluorescence dye with specific human antibodies detected one case more of parasites than the rest of dyes, is not expensive and easy to perform. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10553/51298 | ISSN: | 0014-2565 | Source: | Revista clínica española[ISSN 0014-2565],v. 192, p. 63-66 |
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