FLOTAC: A promising technique for detecting helminth eggs in human faeces

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 103, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1190-1194

  Knopp, Stefanie ^a,b   Glinz, Dominik ^a,c   Rinaldi, Laura ^d   Mohammed, Khalfan A ^b   N'Goran, Eliézer K ^c,e   Stothard, J Russell ^f   Marti, Hanspeter ^a   Cringoli, Giuseppe ^d   Rollinson, David ^f   Utzinger, Jürg ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b Ministry of Health Zanzibar   (Tanzania)

^c CENTRE SUISSE DE RECHERCHES SCIENTIFIQUES EN CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^f Department of Zoology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ascaris lumbricoides; Diagnosis; FLOTAC; Hookworm; Kato Katz; Trichuris trichiura

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FECES ANALYSIS; FLOTAC TECHNIQUE; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE PARASITE; KATO KATZ THICK SMEAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREMATODIASIS; TRICHURIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; COTE D'IVOIRE; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

EID: 70449111311     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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