Predictive vs. empiric assessment of schistosomiasis: implications for treatment projections in Ghana.

• Main Authors: Achille Kabore (Author), Nana-Kwadwo Biritwum (Author), Philip W Downs (Author), Ricardo J Soares Magalhaes (Author), Yaobi Zhang (Author), Eric A Ottesen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Mapping the distribution of schistosomiasis is essential to determine where control programs should operate, but because it is impractical to assess infection prevalence in every potentially endemic community, model-based geostatistics (MBG) is increasingly being used to predict prevalen...