PARASITOLOGY: WHERE IS TRUTH AND WHO DOES ONE BELIEVE IN?

In recent years, there has been a sad tendency to use parasitology as salvation when the diagnosis is abstruse. Teaching shortcomings and knowledge gaps in practitioners allow them to develop and actively practice pseudoscientific methods for diagnosing helminthiasis. The Voll method, coprohistoscopy, and native blood microscopy make impossible to establish a diagnosis and to prescribe treatment. It is necessary to more closely and comprehensively approach to the enzyme immunoassay and diagnosis of parasitic diseases by polymerase chain reaction, preferring classic coproovoscopic methods.

parasitology, diagnosis of parasitic diseases, Voll method, coprohistoscopy