The potential impact of density dependent fecundity on the use of the faecal egg count reduction test for detecting drug resistance in human hookworms

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Kotze, Andrew C ^a   Kopp, Steven R ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRANTEL; ANTINEMATODAL AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOG DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG RESPONSE; FECES ANALYSIS; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; WORM EGG; ANCYLOSTOMA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; DOG; DRUG RESISTANCE; EVALUATION; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FECES; FEMALE; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT;

EID: 56149098799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000297     Document Type: Article

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