Which McMaster egg counting technique is the most reliable?

Parasitology Research

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1387-1394

  Vadlejch, Jaroslav ^a   Petrtýl, Miloslav ^a   Zaichenko, Igor ^b   Čadková, Zuzana ^a   Jankovská, Ivana ^a   Langrová, Iva ^a   Moravec, Milan ^c  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b STAVROPOL STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FLOTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; FECES; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA;

TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA;

EID: 82955233981     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2385-5     Document Type: Article

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