Community Rates of IgG4 Antibodies to Ascaris Haemoglobin Reflect Changes in Community Egg Loads Following Mass Drug Administration.

• Main Authors: Johnny Vlaminck (Author), Taniawati Supali (Author), Peter Geldhof (Author), Cornelis H Hokke (Author), Peter U Fischer (Author), Gary J Weil (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Conventional diagnostic methods for human ascariasis are based on the detection of Ascaris lumbricoides eggs in stool samples. However, studies of ascariasis in pigs have shown that the prevalence and the number of eggs detected in the stool do not correlate well with exposure of the herd...