Diagnostic sensitivity of formalin-fixed faecal microscopy for the detection of soil-transmitted helminths.

Background: Faecal microscopy is the mainstay of soil-transmitted helminth diagnosis and commonly completed on formalin-fixed samples when resources are insufficient to analyse fresh samples. This study assessed the diagnostic sensitivity of microscopic techniques using formalin-fixed samples.

Methods: Formalin-fixed faecal samples from 574 individuals were tested by the formalin-ethyl acetate concentration technique (FECT), Malachite smear, McMaster and McMaster2 methods.

Making the most of mortalities: Novel host-parasite records in a sandy inland mouse ().

From 2020 to 2022, systematic investigation of wildlife mortalities on Dirk Hartog Island, Western Australia was initiated to inform wildlife disease risk analyses for translocation purposes. As part of this monitoring, in November 2020, a sandy inland mouse () was found deceased with multiple comorbidities. Gross necropsy, histopathology and ancillary molecular testing identified several novel host-parasite associations.

Sensitivity and specificity of microscopic and molecular techniques for the diagnosis of taeniasis.

Background And Objectives: The diagnostic challenges associated with T. solium continue to hamper control efforts of the world's most significant foodborne parasite and leading cause of epilepsy in low and middle-income countries. This study aimed to validate two conventional PCRs for taeniasis and estimate the diagnostic performance of microscopic and molecular tools.

A critically co-endangered feather louse n. sp. (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) detected through conservation intervention for the western ground parrot (Psittaculidae).

Martin, Keatley & Ash n. sp. from the western ground parrot North, 1911 (Psittaculidae) is proposed based on combined evidence from morphology and mitochondrial DNA.

The challenges of detecting Taenia solium and neurocysticercosis in low and middle-income countries: A scoping review of Lao People's Democratic Republic.

Objective: Taenia solium is a tapeworm of global importance due to the burden of disease associated with human epilepsy caused by neurocysticercosis. Unfortunately, diagnostic challenges impede control efforts in many low and middle-income countries. This review examines publications concerning Taenia species in the Lao PDR with a focus on T.