Assessing the impact of misclassification error on an epidemiological association between two helminthic infections

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Tarafder, Mushfiqur R ^a,b   Carabin, Hélène ^a   McGarvey, Stephen T ^c   Joseph, Lawrence ^d   Balolong Jr , Ernesto ^e   Olveda, Remigio ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Janet Weis Children s Hospital   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHILIPPINES; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRICHURIASIS; ANIMAL; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; FECES; HELMINTH; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; TRICHURIS;

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PHILIPPINES; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; TRICHURIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953798157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000995     Document Type: Article

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