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. 2008 Mar 26;46(5):1811–1817. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01612-07

TABLE 3.

Cats with clinical respiratory signs determined to be infected or not infected with Aelurostrongylus abstrusus, coccidia, ascarids, tapeworms, and hookworms at examination by direct smear, flotation, Baermann method, and nested PCR on pharyngeal swabsa

Cat nos. Direct smear result
Flotation result
Baermann method result
Pharyngeal swabs
A. abstrusus Coccidia Ascarids Tapeworms Hookworms A. abstrusus Coccidia Ascarids Tapeworms Hookworms A. abstrusus Coccidia Ascarids Tapeworms Hookworms
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 + + + +
8
9 + + +
10
11
12 +
13 +
14
15
16 + +
17
18
19 + + + + + +
20 + + +
21 + + + + + +
22
23 +
24
25
26 + + + +
27 + + + + + +
28
29
30
31 +
32 + +
33 + +
34
35
36 + + + +
37 + + + +
38
39 + + +
40 + + + + +
41 + + + +
42
43
44 + + + +
45
46
47
48 + + +
49 + + + +
50 + +
a

+, infected; −, not infected.