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

• Main Authors: Stefanie Knopp (Author), Ali F Mgeni (Author), I Simba Khamis (Author), Peter Steinmann (Author), J Russell Stothard (Author), David Rollinson (Author), Hanspeter Marti (Author), Jürg Utzinger (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...