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Golden hamsters as alternative definitive hosts of Echinococcus multilocularis were used for coproantigen detection by means of sandwich ELISA. The test was performed in hamsters infected with approximately 20,000, 4,000, 500, 0 (control) and 100,000 (i.e., group I, II, III, IV and V respectively) protoscoleces. Comparison of mean OD values of each group showed significant differences depending on the number of protoscoleces administered and days postinfection. There was also a relatively high statistical correlation between the number of recovered worms and ELISA OD values (correlation coefficient = 0.699, P < 0.05), although accurate comparison of worm burdens among individual animals was difficult when numbers of infecting worms fell within the same range.
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