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Only 6% had dual infection. <jats:italic>Giardia lamblia<\/jats:italic> was the most common parasite (26%), followed by <jats:italic>Hymenolepis nana<\/jats:italic> (20%), <jats:italic>Entamoeba coli<\/jats:italic> (8%), and <jats:italic>Enterobius vermicularis<\/jats:italic> (3%). Except the statistically significant association between <jats:italic>E. vermicularis<\/jats:italic> infection and perianal itching and insomnia (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.001), age, gender, and complaints of the examined individuals had no association with prevalence of parasitic infection. Both FEC and CF were equally the most accurate techniques (accuracy = 98.2%, confidence interval [CI] = 0.95\u20131.0, and \u03ba index = 0.962), whereas the Kato-Katz method was the least accurate (accuracy = 67.5%, CI = 0.57\u20130.78, and \u03ba index = 0.333). However, mini-FLOTAC-ZnSO<jats:sub>4<\/jats:sub> was the most accurate for diagnosis of helminthic infection, and FEC was more accurate for diagnosis of protozoal infection (accuracy = 100%, CI = 1.0\u20131.0, and \u03ba index = 1).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.16-0436","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,17]],"date-time":"2017-01-17T01:50:41Z","timestamp":1484617841000},"page":"589-594","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Intestinal Parasite Infections and Accuracy of Direct Thin and Thick Smear, Formol-Ether Sedimentation, Centrifugal Flotation, and Mini-FLOTAC Techniques Among Patients with Gastrointestinal Tract Disorders from the Greater Cairo Region, Egypt"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"96","author":[{"given":"Atef H.","family":"Hussein","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Benha, Egypt."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Samia M.","family":"Rashed","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Benha, Egypt."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ibrahim A.","family":"El-Hayawan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Benha, Egypt."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nagwa S. 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