The Kato-Katz Method is Reliable for Diagnosis of Clonorchis Sinensis Infection

Overview

Journal Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis

Specialties Infectious Diseases
Microbiology
Pathology

Date 2003 Sep 12

PMID 12967748

Citations 45

Authors

Sung-Tae Hong

Min-Ho Choi

Chung-Hyun Kim

Byung-Suk Chung

Zhuo Ji

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Abstract

We evaluated the sensitivity of three fecal examination methods, the Kato-Katz (KK) method, formalin-ether technique (FE) and direct smear, for the diagnosis of clonorchiasis. The KK method proved to be most sensitive in six groups with different egg counts. In cases of extremely light infection FE was found to be more sensitive than KK.

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