Modern Treatment of Intestinal Helmintoses in Children

Abstract

Helminthiasis has a global distribution, is a common cause of diarrhea in both children and adults, and is transmitted through the fecal-oral route by direct or indirect ingestion of causative cysts. Laboratory diagnosis of helminthiasis. mainly based on microscopic or trophozoite demonstration in stool samples, but there are also several immunological analyzes and molecular methods for the diagnosis of helminthiasis. The purpose of this study was to review the methods used in the medical laboratory and to identify their shortcomings and difficulties for the diagnosis of giardiasis. In this article, we have evaluated the diagnostic methods of helminthiasis with an extensive review of literature, electronic databases and books. The search covered articles published up to 2022 and some textbooks.

It was concluded that the combination of traditional microscopy with the stool concentration method should still be performed in a routine medical laboratory due to its economic and high sensitivity and immunologically based analysis and molecular methods, which are recommended to be used as additional tests to the traditional technique.