The virus which belongs to the family of the coronavirus was seen first in Wuhan city of China. As it spreads so quickly and fastly, now all over countries in the world are suffering from this. The world health organization has considered and declared it a pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The traditional basis of diagnosis is identification of trophozoites or cysts in the stool of infected patients. Recently the advent of more objective techniques like antigen detection methods has led to an increase in their use versus those that rely on subjective microscopic examination of fecal specimens for cysts may facilitate diagnosis of in stool specimens.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out from Oct 2015 to Feb 2016 on patients admitted to Benha University Hospitals (Benha, Egypt) and outpatients of Theodor Bilharz Research Institute (TBRI) (Giza, Egypt).