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SUBMITTER: Coffeng LE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7289558 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Coffeng Luc E LE Malizia Veronica V Vegvari Carolin C Cools Piet P Halliday Katherine E KE Levecke Bruno B Mekonnen Zeleke Z Gichuki Paul M PM Sayasone Somphou S Sarkar Rajiv R Shaali Ame A Vlaminck Johnny J Anderson Roy M RM de Vlas Sake J SJ
The Journal of infectious diseases 20200601 Suppl 5
Starting and stopping preventive chemotherapy (PC) for soil-transmitted helminthiasis is typically based on the prevalence of infection as measured by Kato-Katz (KK) fecal smears. Kato-Katz-based egg counts can vary highly over repeated stool samples and smears. Consequentially, the sensitivity of KK-based surveys depends on the number of stool samples per person and the number of smears per sample. Given finite resources, collecting multiple samples and/or smears means screening fewer individua ...[more]