Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (Jan 2005)
Comparison of the thick smear and Kato-Katz techniques for diagnosis of intestinal helminth infections
Abstract
This study compared the efficiency of Kato-Katz thick smear and thick smear techniques for the diagnosis of intestinal helminths. The sensitivity of the thick smear technique was higher than that of the Kato-Katz method for the diagnosis of all helminths except Schistosoma mansoni.