Computer-assisted diagnosis of gastrointestinal helminths of domestic and experimental animals

A 'user-friendly' interactive computer program written in BASIC with the objective of assisting the species identification of common gastrointestinal parasites of domestic and experimental animals is described. The computer program operates by prompting the user to select a morphological description from a set of presented descriptions that best fits the observed parasite. Depending on the user's response, the program presents another set of morphological descriptions from which the user must choose again, and so on, until the program concludes with the species of the parasite. A useful feature of this program is the option for the user to go back at any time and see the previous set of descriptions. This option allows the user to choose another description if (s)he thinks that the previous choice was not the correct one.