Integrating use of point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen rapid diagnostic tests by community health workers during mass drug administration campaigns to improve uptake of praziquantel treatment among the adult population at Kome Island, North-Western Tanzania: a cluster randomized community trial

BACKGROUND: The major drawback of the community-based mass drug administration (MDA) approach against schistosomiasis is that treatment is offered blindly without testing for the targeted infection. This partly contributes to the low treatment coverage. One approach to overcome this limitation is to...

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Autores principales: Mazigo, Humphrey D., Amuasi, John H., Osei, Isaac, Kinung’hi, Safari M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
Materias:
Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6034224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29976173
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5732-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6034224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29976173
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5732-y

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