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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Autori principali: 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
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Public Library of Science 2011
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114752/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21695104
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001201
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