Diagnostic Tests
- History of eating raw fish
- Examination of feces for eggs of N. salmincola
- Because only a few eggs are contained within each adult worm, patients with light infections are likely to have negative stool tests. Using trichrome stained preparations rather than formalin-ethyl acetate concentrates was more sensitive to identify cases.
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