Toward Measuring Schistosoma Response to Praziquantel Treatment with Appropriate Descriptors of Egg Excretion.

• Main Authors: Piero L Olliaro (Author), Michel Vaillant (Author), Aïssatou Diawara (Author), Jean T Coulibaly (Author), Amadou Garba (Author), Jennifer Keiser (Author), Charles H King (Author), Stefanie Knopp (Author), Aly Landouré (Author), Eliézer K N'Goran (Author), Giovanna Raso (Author), Alexandra U Scherrer (Author), José Carlos Sousa-Figueiredo (Author), Katarina Stete (Author), Xiao-Nong Zhou (Author), Jürg Utzinger (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:The control of schistosomiasis emphasizes preventive chemotherapy with praziquantel, which aims at decreasing infection intensity and thus morbidity in individuals, as well as transmission in communities. Standardizing methods to assess treatment efficacy is important to compare trial out...