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Standard coprological tests have performed poorly for detecting\n                    <jats:italic>A. perfoliata<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and while a centrifugation-enhanced flotation technique is superior to other techniques, it is time consuming due to three 10-minute centrifugation steps. This study aimed to evaluate modifications of this technique that reduce the centrifugation durations to 5 and 1\u00a0min, respectively. Fecal samples were collected from ten adult\n                    <jats:italic>A. perfoliata<\/jats:italic>\n                    egg count positive mares and divided into 9 subsamples to allow for three replicate counts for each of the three protocols. The standard 10-minute centrifugation had a mean coefficient of variation (CV) of 76.8% and a 95% confidence interval of 61.4% \u2212\u200992.1%, while the 5-min and 1-min protocols had CVs of 68.6% (53.7%-83.4%) and 59.0% (48.7% \u2212\u200969.4%), respectively. 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