A Comparison of the Sensitivity and Fecal Egg Counts of the McMaster Egg Counting and Kato-Katz Thick Smear Methods for Soil-Transmitted Helminths

A Comparison of the Sensitivity and Fecal Egg Counts of the McMaster Egg Counting and Kato-Katz Thick Smear Methods for Soil-Transmitted Helminths

Currently, in public health, the reduction in the number of eggs excreted in stools after drug administration is used to monitor the efficacy of drugs against parasitic worms. Yet, studies comparing diagnostic methods for the enumeration of eggs in stool are few. We compared the Kato-Katz thick smea...

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Main Authors: 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
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114752/

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