Comparison of individual and pooled diagnostic examination strategies during the national mapping of soil-transmitted helminths and Schistosoma mansoni in Ethiopia.

• Glavni autori: Gemechu Tadesse Leta (Autor), Mike French (Autor), Pierre Dorny (Autor), Jozef Vercruysse (Autor), Bruno Levecke (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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BACKGROUND:Laboratory-based studies have highlighted that pooling stool and urine samples can reduce costs and diagnostic burden without a negative impact on the ability to estimate the intensity of soil-transmitted helminth (STH, Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworms) and schistos...