Calculating the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infection through pooling of stool samples: Choosing and optimizing the pooling strategy.

• Main Authors: James E Truscott (Author), Julia C Dunn (Author), Marina Papaiakovou (Author), Fabian Schaer (Author), Marleen Werkman (Author), D Timothy J Littlewood (Author), Judd L Walson (Author), Roy M Anderson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Prevalence is a common epidemiological measure for assessing soil-transmitted helminth burden and forms the basis for much public-health decision-making. Standard diagnostic techniques are based on egg detection in stool samples through microscopy and these techniques are known to have poor sensitiv...