Evaluation of a Urine Pooling Strategy for the Rapid and Cost-Efficient Prevalence Classification of Schistosomiasis.

• Main Authors: Nathan C Lo (Author), Jean T Coulibaly (Author), Eran Bendavid (Author), Eliézer K N'Goran (Author), Jürg Utzinger (Author), Jennifer Keiser (Author), Isaac I Bogoch (Author), Jason R Andrews (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A key epidemiologic feature of schistosomiasis is its focal distribution, which has important implications for the spatial targeting of preventive chemotherapy programs. We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of a urine pooling strategy using a point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen (POC-CCA) cass...