A study on prevalence of Intestinal worm infestation and a comparative analysis between two floatation methods, for demonstrating intestinal parasites in stool (dung) of cattle

Abstract

Parasitic infections of the gut are difficult to detect. It depends on microscopy and also different concentration techniques. All the concentration techniques may not be good and may not give reproducible results. Though there are some standard solutions giving good results but they are not always affordable in all geographical areas and there are very less solutions able to detect parasitic ova in both soil and faeces. We here report a new concentration technique i.e. sugar-ethanol solution for gut parasites. In this study we compared our novel solution (sugar ethanol) with saturated salt solution by flotation technique in the dung sample of cattle and soil samples around them in rural area of West Bengal. Results were conformable and new sugar-akcohol based solution was superior to Saturated saline. This solution can be used for concentration technique in stool samples.