Comparative cost assessment of the Kato-Katz and FLOTAC techniques for soil-transmitted helminth diagnosis in epidemiological surveys

BACKGROUND: The Kato-Katz technique is widely used for the diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminthiasis in epidemiological surveys and is believed to be an inexpensive method. The FLOTAC technique shows a higher sensitivity for the diagnosis of light-intensity soil-transmitted helminth infections but...

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Autores principales: Speich, Benjamin, Knopp, Stefanie, Mohammed, Khalfan A, Khamis, I Simba, Rinaldi, Laura, Cringoli, Giuseppe, Rollinson, David, Utzinger, Jürg
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2936391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20707931
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-3-71

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2936391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20707931
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-3-71

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