TY - JOUR AU - Khanum, Hamida AU - Alam, Mafruha AU - Khalil, Imtiaz AU - Haque, Rashidul PY - 2015/01/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Quantative assesment of kato-katz thick smear and formol-ether concentration technique for the diagnosis of Ascaris lumbricoides JF - Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences JA - Dhaka Univ. J. Biol. Sci VL - 24 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.3329/dujbs.v24i1.46310 UR - https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/DUJBS/article/view/46310 SP - 65-72 AB - <p>The quantitative analysis of <em>A. lumbricoides </em>eggs in stool of 205 subjects (male 101 and female 104) showed that the mean eggs per gram(EPG) by Kato‐ Katz (KK) (EPG = 11130.89) was markedly higher than those of Formal‐Ether concentration technique (FE) (EPG = 1593.32). Co‐efficient of correlation was significant (r = 0.453**) at p = 0.01 level. Age based comparison among the subjects also revealed that KK had a better quantification of <em>A. lumbricoides </em>eggs than FE.</p><p>Dhaka Univ. J. Biol. Sci. <strong>24</strong>(1): 65-72, 2015 (January)</p> ER -