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Abstract
Parasitic infection of the gastrointestinal tract is one of the major health problems all over the world. It has been estimated to affect about 3.5 billion people globally and caused morbidity in approximately 450 million people.
Control and treatment of the intestinal parasitic infectious diseases depend mainly on the performance of diagnostic tests. The choice of these tests relies on their reliability, sensitivity and affordability and also on their cost.
The current study was performed to assess the performance and accuracy of some recent methods for stool examination as mini-FLOTAC and Feconomics and comparing them to our traditional methods, direct smear and FECM. To achieve this objective, a total of 136 human stool samples were collected from Clinical Pathology Department in Menoufia University Hospitals and Shebin EL Kom Tropical Hospital. Each sample was subjected to microscopic examination and examined by direct smear method, FECM, Feconomics method and mini-FLOTAC using three different flotation solutions; FS7, FS2 and FS6.
This study showed that the overall prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection was 93.4%. Cryptosporidium was the most prevalent parasite (25.7%) and T. colubriformis was the least prevalent one (8.1%).
It was revealed that Feconomics detected the higher number of intestinal parasites; both protozoa and helminths followed by MF-FS7 with superiority for detection of helminths over protozoa with significant difference P<0.05, then FECM while the least method was direct smear method.
Regarding detection of all parasites, this study showed that there was a good agreement between Feconomics and the combined results while there was only poor agreement between the combined results and all other methods. Also, there was a perfect agreement between direct smear method and MF-FS6.