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Assessing stool quantities generated by three specific Kato-Katz thick smear templates employed in different settings

BACKGROUND: The Kato-Katz technique is recommended for the diagnosis of helminth infections in epidemiological surveys, drug efficacy studies and monitoring of control interventions. We assessed the comparability of the average amount of faeces generated by three Kato-Katz templates included in test...

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Autores principales: Leuenberger, Andrea, Nassoro, Tatu, Said, Khadija, Fenner, Lukas, Sikalengo, George, Letang, Emilio, Montresor, Antonio, Zhou, Xiao-Nong, Steinmann, Peter, Marti, Hanspeter, Utzinger, Jürg, Knopp, Stefanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4929780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27364623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-016-0150-9