Diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminths in the era of preventive chemotherapy: Effect of multiple stool sampling and use of different diagnostic techniques

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Knopp, Stefanie ^a   Mgeni, Ali F ^b   Khamis, I Simba ^b   Steinmann, Peter ^a,c   Stothard, J Russell ^d   Rollinson, David ^d   Marti, Hanspeter ^a   Utzinger, Jürg ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b Ministry of Health Zanzibar   (Tanzania)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FECES ANALYSIS; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TANZANIA; TRICHURIS; ANIMAL; ASCARIASIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; FECES; HELMINTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POVERTY; TRICHURIASIS; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FECES; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POVERTY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL; TANZANIA; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 59349112520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000331     Document Type: Article

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