A Comparison of the Sensitivity and Fecal Egg Counts of the McMaster Egg Counting and Kato-Katz Thick Smear Methods for Soil-Transmitted Helminths

BACKGROUND: The Kato-Katz thick smear (Kato-Katz) is the diagnostic method recommended for monitoring large-scale treatment programs implemented for the control of soil-transmitted helminths (STH) in public health, yet it is difficult to standardize. A promising alternative is the McMaster egg count...

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Autores principales: Levecke, Bruno, Behnke, Jerzy M., Ajjampur, Sitara S. R., Albonico, Marco, Ame, Shaali M., Charlier, Johannes, Geiger, Stefan M., Hoa, Nguyen T. V., Kamwa Ngassam, Romuald I., Kotze, Andrew C., McCarthy, James S., Montresor, Antonio, Periago, Maria V., Roy, Sheela, Tchuem Tchuenté, Louis-Albert, Thach, D. T. C., Vercruysse, Jozef
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21695104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001201

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21695104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001201

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