Novel Insights in the Fecal Egg Count Reduction Test for Monitoring Drug Efficacy against Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Large-Scale Treatment Programs

BACKGROUND: The fecal egg count reduction test (FECRT) is recommended to monitor drug efficacy against soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) in public health. However, the impact of factors inherent to study design (sample size and detection limit of the fecal egg count (FEC) method) and host-parasite i...

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Autores principales: Levecke, Bruno, Speybroeck, Niko, Dobson, Robert J., Vercruysse, Jozef, Charlier, Johannes
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/PMC3236725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22180801
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001427

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3236725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22180801
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001427

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