Diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminths in the era of preventive chemotherapy: effect of multiple stool sampling and use of different diagnostic techniques.

• Egile Nagusiak: Stefanie Knopp (Egilea), Ali F Mgeni (Egilea), I Simba Khamis (Egilea), Peter Steinmann (Egilea), J Russell Stothard (Egilea), David Rollinson (Egilea), Hanspeter Marti (Egilea), Jürg Utzinger (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND: Soil-transmitted helminth infections are common throughout the tropics and subtropics and they disproportionately affect the poorest of the poor. In view of a growing global commitment to control soil-transmitted helminthiasis, there is a need to elucidate the effect of repeated stool sa...