A total of 351 individuals, 226 HIV positive and 125 HIV negative, werernexamined by nutrient agar plate, Baermann method , direct fecal smear,rnconcentration method , Harada Mori filter paper and charcoal culture in thisrnstudy. Among these 139(39.6%) were positive for different type of intestinalrnparasites. The common intestinal parasites detected in this study were S.rnstercoralis, E. histolytica / dispar, A . lumbricoides, B. hominis, G. lamblia,rnhookworm, C. parvum , and I . belli. Out of these parasites, more than 90% ofrnS. stercoralis and all cases of C. parvum and I . belli were detected from HIVrnpositive subjects. Although different intestinal parasites were detected fromrnHIV patients, S. stercoralis was the predominant infection detected by nutrientrnagar plate and was associated with chronic diarrhea in the HIV/ AIDS patientsrnincluded in the study. Since S. stercoralis is known to exist as anrnasymptomatic chronic infection, more classical parasitological methods such asrndirect and concentration methods were not as sensitive as the agar platernculture and the Baermann method . The present study showed that the nutrientrnagar plate culture method was the most sensitive method for the detection of S ,rnstercoralis infection. It detected 97.7% of the infection among the total studyrnsubjects. It furthermore detected 90.7% of S. stercoralis infection in HIVrnpositive patients with and without diarrhea . By using this method , it wasrnpossible to show that 76.9% of S. stercoralis infection to be associated withrndiarrhea in HIV positive patients (P