Novel insights in the fecal egg count reduction test for monitoring drug efficacy against soil-transmitted helminths in large-scale treatment programs.

• Autors principals: Bruno Levecke (Autor), Niko Speybroeck (Autor), Robert J Dobson (Autor), Jozef Vercruysse (Autor), Johannes Charlier (Autor)
• Format: Llibre
• Publicat: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Matèries: article
• Accés en línia: Connect to this object online.

<h4>Background</h4>The fecal egg count reduction test (FECRT) is recommended to monitor drug efficacy against soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) in public health. However, the impact of factors inherent to study design (sample size and detection limit of the fecal egg count (FEC) method)...