Novel insights in the fecal egg count reduction test for monitoring drug efficacy against soil-transmitted helminths in large-scale treatment programs

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Levecke, Bruno ^a   Speybroeck, Niko ^b   Dobson, Robert J ^c   Vercruysse, Jozef ^a   Charlier, Johannes ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; FECES ANALYSIS; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PROCESS MODEL; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARASITOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOIL;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FECES; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARASITE EGG COUNT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL;

EID: 84855275527     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001427     Document Type: Article

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