Diagnostic Parasitology - Routine diagnostic tests

• Direct Smear (all animal species, a fresh specimen required)
• Faecal Flotation (NaCl solution, other solutions on demand; all animal species)
• McMaster Faecal Egg Counts (all species)
• Baermann test for lungworms (all animal species)
• Sedimentation techniques (qualitative & quantitative; all animal species)
• Direct Fluorescence Test for Cryptosporidium and Giradia
  - all mammalian species; only experimental for birds, reptiles and fish
• Tritrichomonas foetus Culture
  - cats; only experimental for dogs and other potential hosts

Hookworm eggs

Toxocara canis