Giardia lamblia: a major parasitic cause of childhood diarrhoea in patients attending a district hospital in Ghana

Table 1 Stool categories and techniques applied

		Technique used
Consistency ^§	Parasite stage most likely to seen	Saline	Iodine	Formol Ether
Formed	Cyst	√	√	√
Semi formed/Soft	Cyst/Trophozoites	√	√	√
Loose	Trophozoites	√		√
Watery	Trophozoites	√		√

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