Hall A
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 1981;75(5):682-7. doi: 10.1016/0035-9203(81)90148-6.
As part of an investigation of intestinal parasitic infections of rural Kenyan people, a study was undertaken to examine variations in faecal egg counts and to assess the sensitivity of the ether sedimentation technique of faecal processing in the diagnosis of helminth infections. Three faecal samples a day were collected for five consecutive days from 10 men known to harbour a total of 23 nematode infections of Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworm. Considerable variation in egg counts was encountered among faecal samples collected from the same stool, as well as over the five day period. Some possible causes of this variation are discussed, especially in relation to a high fibre diet. The technique was found to be about 95% effective in detecting an infection.
作为对肯尼亚农村居民肠道寄生虫感染调查的一部分，开展了一项研究，以检查粪便虫卵计数的变化，并评估粪便处理的乙醚沉淀技术在蠕虫感染诊断中的敏感性。连续五天，每天从10名已知感染了共23例蛔虫、鞭虫和钩虫线虫感染的男性身上采集三份粪便样本。在从同一粪便中采集的粪便样本之间以及在五天期间，虫卵计数存在相当大的差异。讨论了这种差异的一些可能原因，特别是与高纤维饮食有关的原因。该技术在检测感染方面的有效性约为95%。
