All that is blood is not schistosomiasis: experiences with reagent strip testing for urogenital schistosomiasis with special consideration to very-low prevalence settings

BACKGROUND: Reagent strip testing for microhaematuria has long been used for community diagnosis of Schistosoma haematobium. Sensitivities and specificities are reasonable, and hence, microhaematuria can serve as a proxy for S. haematobium infection. However, assessment of test performance in the co...

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Published in:Parasit Vectors
Main Authors: Krauth, Stefanie J., Greter, Helena, Stete, Katarina, Coulibaly, Jean T., Traoré, Seïdinan I., Ngandolo, Bongo N. R., Achi, Louise Y., Zinsstag, Jakob, N’Goran, Eliézer K., Utzinger, Jürg
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Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4641389/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26554822
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1165-y
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