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

• मुख्य लेखकों: James E Truscott (लेखक), Julia C Dunn (लेखक), Marina Papaiakovou (लेखक), Fabian Schaer (लेखक), Marleen Werkman (लेखक), D Timothy J Littlewood (लेखक), Judd L Walson (लेखक), Roy M Anderson (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: 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...