Estimating true prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni from population summary measures based on the Kato-Katz diagnostic technique

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni infection is usually assessed by the Kato-Katz diagnostic technique. However, Kato-Katz thick smears have low sensitivity, especially for light infections. Egg count models fitted on individual level data can adjust for the infection intensity-depend...

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izdano v:PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Main Authors: Bärenbold, Oliver, Garba, Amadou, Colley, Daniel G., Fleming, Fiona M., Assaré, Rufin K., Tukahebwa, Edridah M., Kebede, Biruck, Coulibaly, Jean T., N’Goran, Eliézer K., Tchuem Tchuenté, Louis-Albert, Mwinzi, Pauline, Utzinger, Jürg, Vounatsou, Penelope
Format: Artigo
Jezik:Inglês
Izdano: Public Library of Science 2021
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Research Article
Online dostop:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8062092/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33819266
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009310
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