The performance of school-based questionnaires of reported blood in urine in diagnosing Schistosoma haematobium infection: Patterns by age and sex

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 751-757

  Guyatt, Helen ^a   Brooker, Simon ^a   Lwambo, Nicholas J S ^a,b   Siza, Julius E ^b   Bundy, Donald A P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Negative predictive value; Positive predictive value; Questionnaires; Schistosoma haematobium; School based; Sensitivity; Specificity; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS;

SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM;

EID: 0032716523     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1999.00483.x     Document Type: Article

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