Strongyloidiasis is considered an important cause of mor-bidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients.There-fore, accurate diagnosis and treatment of S.stercoralisinfection is necessary. Conventional parasitological methods are not sufficiently sensitive to detect strongyloidiasis, and repeated examinations of stools over a number of consecutive days are necessary.The agar plate culture method has been recognized as being more sensitive than other parasitologi-cal methods in the diagnosis of S. stercoralis.Similar to
previous studies,the results of this study confirmed that the sensitivity of APC was higher than FEC, detecting1.44 times more positive cases. Nevertheless, its efficacy was not 100%, therefore, implying the need for new methodswith higher sensitivity. In addition, APC is time consuming,labor intensive, and requires multiple fresh stool samples and expert microscopists