A research agenda for helminth diseases of humans: diagnostics for control and elimination programmes.

• Main Authors: James S McCarthy (Author), Sara Lustigman (Author), Guo-Jing Yang (Author), Rashida M Barakat (Author), Héctor H García (Author), Banchob Sripa (Author), Arve Lee Willingham (Author), Roger K Prichard (Author), María-Gloria Basáñez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Diagnostic tools appropriate for undertaking interventions to control helminth infections are key to their success. Many diagnostic tests for helminth infection have unsatisfactory performance characteristics and are not well suited for use in the parasite control programmes that are being increasin...