diff --git a/Utilities/Doxygen/mcdoc.py b/Utilities/Doxygen/mcdoc.py
index 3ff60f300eb8b0cd560ac0ac8c64eaeb4cd8c2fa..b380dd153f6754bab1ab9142b9b18951945a9d78 100644
--- a/Utilities/Doxygen/mcdoc.py
+++ b/Utilities/Doxygen/mcdoc.py
@@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ def checkGroup( fname, group ):
     # we don't care about doxygen fields not about a class
     if r"\class" in dcontent and dcontent != " \class classname ":
       # do we have a line with the expected content?
-      if not re.search(r"\ingroup .*"+group+"( |$)", dcontent, re.MULTILINE):
+      if not re.search(r"\\ingroup .*"+group+"( |$)", dcontent, re.MULTILINE):
         # get class name and the line for debug output
-        cname = re.search(r"\class +([^ ]*)", dcontent).group(1).strip()
+        cname = re.search(r"\\class +([^ ]*)", dcontent).group(1).strip()
         line = len(fcontent[:m.start(1)].splitlines())
         sys.stderr.write(r'%s:%s: error: "\ingroup %s" not set in class %s.' % (fname, line, group, cname) +"\n")
         ret = 1