%0 Journal Article %T Compara£¿£¿o de quatro m¨¦todos laboratoriais para diagn¨®stico da Giardia lamblia em fezes de crian£¿as residentes em Bel¨¦m, Par¨¢ %A Machado %A Ricardo Luiz Dantas %A Figueredo %A Maria Cristina %A Frade %A Amanda Farage %A Kud¨® %A M£¿nica Eriko %A Silva Filho %A Manoel Gomes %A P¨®voa %A Marinete Marins %J Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical %D 2001 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT %R 10.1590/S0037-86822001000100014 %X we report the evaluation of four techniques for giardia lamblia diagnosis in children's stool. the iron haematoxilin staining and direct examination with lugol showed lower positivity, while the method of faust et al. continues to be a good option for g. lamblia diagnosis and immunoenzymatic assay increases the detection of this parasite. %K giardia lamblia %K diagnosis %K enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay %K stool %K coproantigen. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0037-86822001000100014&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en