Calculating the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infection through pooling of stool samples: Choosing and optimizing the pooling strategy

Prevalence is a common epidemiological measure for assessing soil-transmitted helminth burden and forms the basis for much public-health decision-making. Standard diagnostic techniques are based on egg detection in stool samples through microscopy and these techniques are known to have poor sensitiv...

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Autores principales: Truscott, James E., Dunn, Julia C., Papaiakovou, Marina, Schaer, Fabian, Werkman, Marleen, Littlewood, D. Timothy J., Walson, Judd L., Anderson, Roy M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6445468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30897089
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007196

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