Comparison of multi-parallel qPCR and double-slide Kato-Katz for detection of soil-transmitted helminth infection among children in rural Bangladesh.

• Main Authors: Jade Benjamin-Chung (Author), Nils Pilotte (Author), Ayse Ercumen (Author), Jessica R Grant (Author), Jacqueline R M A Maasch (Author), Andrew M Gonzalez (Author), Ashanta C Ester (Author), Benjamin F Arnold (Author), Mahbubur Rahman (Author), Rashidul Haque (Author), Alan E Hubbard (Author), Stephen P Luby (Author), Steven A Williams (Author), John M Colford (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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There is growing interest in local elimination of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection in endemic settings. In such settings, highly sensitive diagnostics are needed to detect STH infection. We compared double-slide Kato-Katz, the most commonly used copromicroscopic detection method, to multi-p...