Diagnostic Key for the Identification of the most common Helminth Eggs in Stool Samples

 

 

How to work with the Key to the Diagnostic Decision Tree:

 

1. Chose an egg of a parasite from the list below

2. Open the decision tree

3. Follow the diagnostic decision tree

4. When you come to the end, You can open the "solution" and start the diagnostic decision game again

 

Compare the solution of the choosen egg with the solution you have diagnosed by the decision tree!

 

 

To the Identification Decision Tree without the Names of the Parasites

 

 

How to work with the "WebViewer Parasitology":

Click on the link "WebViewer Parasitology", and wait a moment, the data will be loaded.

Then you can consult the parasites of the different classes: Trematodes, Cestodes, Nematodes

 

 

 

 

Concept and Realization: Hanspeter Rohr, MD, Prof. and Niklaus Weiss, PhD, Prof.

Realization: Yvette Endriss (Digital pictures), Elisabeth Escher (Consultant), Birgit Rohr (Implementation)

© 2006 Swiss Tropical Institute and NeoCortex Foundation, University of Basel, Switzerland

 

(30.05.06)