Examination of soil for the presence of helminths eggs

Abstract

The method of research of tests of the soil on eggs of helminths which sur- passes the method of Romanenko offered earlier in the efficiency is offered and can be used in practice and when carrying out scientific researches. This method was applied to inspection of objects of environment of Kazan city and allowed to reveal big impurity eggs of geohelminths. The developed method allowed to reveal in addition about 36 % of eggs of ascarids than on Romanenko's method that is caused by application of several components in flotation liquid: solutions of chlo- ride of zinc and sodium chloride and glycerin. Components of the flotation liquid don't break morphology of eggs of parasites and don't create difficulties with mor- phological identification of the helminths

Keywords

• eggs
• helminths
• soil
• contamination
• republic of tatarstan