Prevalence of amebiasis in inflammatory bowel disease in Turkey

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World Journal of Gastroenterology

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World J Gastroenterol. Aug 15, 2003; 9(8): 1834-1835
Published online Aug 15, 2003. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v9.i8.1834

Table 2 Comparison of wet mount+Lugol’s iodine, modi-fied formol ethyl acetate methods with trichrome staining method

	Modified formol ethyl acetate (%)	Wet mount+Lugol’s iodine staining (%)
Sensitivity	64	36
Specificity	99	98
False negatives	36	64
False positives	0.1	0.1
Positive predictive value	90	63
Negative predictive value	97	95
Rate of accuracy	97	93

Citation: Ustun S, Dagci H, Aksoy U, Guruz Y, Ersoz G. Prevalence of amebiasis in inflammatory bowel disease in Turkey. World J Gastroenterol 2003; 9(8): 1834-1835
URL: https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v9/i8/1834.htm
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v9.i8.1834