Further epidemiological analyses proved unrewarding due to
the homogeneous character of the study population with regard
to education,occupation,socioeconomicstatusandnear–universal
dog ownership (92.6% of the families with at least one dog) (data
not shown).
3.2. Detection of Trichuris spp. eggs by different diagnostic
method
Table 3 details the performance of the FLOTAC and the ether-
concentration techniques with regard to diagnosing differently
sized Trichuris spp. eggs.The FLOTAC technique was superior