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SUBMITTER: Worrell CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4457354 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20150413 6
Financial resources tend to be limited in schistosomiasis endemic areas, forcing program managers to balance financial and scientific considerations when selecting detection assays. Therefore, we compared the costs of using single stool Kato-Katz, triplicate stool Kato-Katz, and point-of-contact circulating cathodic antigen (POC-CCA) assays for the detection of Schistosoma mansoni infection. Economic and financial costs were estimated from the viewpoint of a schistosomiasis control program using ...[more]