Evaluation of copromicroscopy and serology to measure the exposure to Ascaris infections across age groups and to assess the impact of 3 years of biannual mass drug administration in Jimma Town, Ethiopia.

• Main Authors: Daniel Dana (Author), Johnny Vlaminck (Author), Mio Ayana (Author), Bamlaku Tadege (Author), Zeleke Mekonnen (Author), Peter Geldhof (Author), Bruno Levecke (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:The scientific community has recently summarized the desired characteristics for diagnostic tools across the different phases of a soil-transmitted helminth (STH) mass drug administration (MDA) program. Although serology meets some of the desired criteria, there is a scarcity of data on b...