Dr. Myro Figura (@doctormyro) and Dr. Dana Brems (@footdocdana) posted a TikTok video reacting to a seemingly clean hand being put under a microscope. “This hand looks clean to the naked eye but ...

In order for doctors to determine whether or not to treat a person or village with anti-helminth medication, they need to have a microscope that performs with at least 80 percent accuracy.

Table 1 Characteristics (diagnostic performance and technical performance) and main limitations of different copromicroscopic techniques used for the diagnosis of helminth and protozoan infections ...

That fancy Latin word is the name of a helminth—a tapeworm ... They are encased in tiny cysts, and under a microscope, they look like seeds—only with eyespots and tails.

A mobile telephone transformed into a microscope yielded "only modest" accuracy and sensitivity but holds future promise when used to diagnose soil-transmitted helminths compared with traditional ...