Integrating use of point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen rapid diagnostic tests by community health workers during mass drug administration campaigns to improve uptake of praziquantel treatment among the adult population at Kome Island, North-Western Tanzania: a cluster randomized community trial

• Autores principales: Humphrey D. Mazigo (Autor), John H. Amuasi (Autor), Isaac Osei (Autor), Safari M. Kinung'hi (Autor)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: BMC, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Materias: article
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Abstract Background The major drawback of the community-based mass drug administration (MDA) approach against schistosomiasis is that treatment is offered blindly without testing for the targeted infection. This partly contributes to the low treatment coverage. One approach to overcome this limitati...