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SANDOVAL, Espartaco et al. Comparison between two McMaster egg counting slide used for the diagnostic of gastrointestinal nematode infection in ruminants. Zootecnia Trop. [online]. 2011, vol.29, n.4, pp.495-501. ISSN 0798-7269.

Gastrointestinal parasitism in ruminants, represents a major constraint to growth, reproduction and survival in susceptible animals. The control of parasitic infections need of techniques able to determine the presence of the parasite and the infestation levels within the herd in order to establish the possible relationship among the physiologic alterations, the level of parasitic infection and the affection on the production. The aims of this work, was to compare the classical coproscopical technique of McMaster (TCC) against the McMaster INTA (TCI) technique, both are eggs counting slide used for the parasitological diagnosis. For the study 40 crossbreed calves of both sexes were used. A total of 40 samples of faeces were gathered directly of the rectum of each animal and examined for both techniques. The comparison between the eggs per gram of faeces counts (HPG) was realized by mean of Wilcoxon test and the correlation through the coeffi cient of ranks of Spearman. The comparison of the discrepancies was made with the McNemar test and the agreement was evaluated with the Kappa Index. We conclude that both cameras have features of reliability, speed, simplicity and low cost, but the TCI offers advantages in detection of eggs (positive animals) and accumulators animal identifi cation

Palabras clave : coprology; parasitism; diagnostic; McMaster slide; gastrointestinal nematodes.

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