An in-depth analysis of a piece of shit: distribution of Schistosoma mansoni and hookworm eggs in human stool.

• Main Authors: Stefanie J Krauth (Author), Jean T Coulibaly (Author), Stefanie Knopp (Author), Mahamadou Traoré (Author), Eliézer K N'Goran (Author), Jürg Utzinger (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: An accurate diagnosis of helminth infection is important to improve patient management. However, there is considerable intra- and inter-specimen variation of helminth egg counts in human feces. Homogenization of stool samples has been suggested to improve diagnostic accuracy, but there a...