Repeated stool sampling and use of multiple techniques enhance the sensitivity of helminth diagnosis: A cross-sectional survey in southern Lao People's Democratic Republic

Acta Tropica

Volumn 141, Issue Part B, 2015, Pages 315-321

  Sayasone, Somphou ^a,b,c   Utzinger, Jürg ^b,c   Akkhavong, Kongsap ^a   Odermatt, Peter ^b,c  

^a Ministry of Health   (Laos)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Helminthiasis; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Multiparasitism; Multiple diagnostic techniques; Multiple stool sampling

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FECAL PELLET; HEALTH STATUS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARASITIC DISEASE; PARASITISM;

ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORMALIN ETHYL ACETATE CONCENTRATION TECHNIQUE; GOLD STANDARD; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; KATO KATZ TECHNIQUE; LAOS; MALE; OPISTHORCHIASIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MEKONGI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRICHURIASIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FECES; HELMINTH; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; OPISTHORCHIS; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRICHURIS; YOUNG ADULT;

LAOS;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; SCHISTOSOMA MEKONGI; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; FORMALDEHYDE;

ACETATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; LAOS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84916930693     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.09.004     Document Type: Article

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