ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2016
Rationale for Quality Assurance in Fecal Egg Monitoring of Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis.
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Efficacy and safety of praziquantel and dihydroartemisinin piperaquine combination for treatment and control of intestinal schistosomiasis: A randomized, non-inferiority clinical trial.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Trial
- Therapeutic efficacy of albendazole against soil-transmitted helminthiasis in children measured by five diagnostic methods.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Trial
- Identifying thresholds for classifying moderate-to-heavy soil-transmitted helminth intensity infections for FECPAKG2, McMaster, Mini-FLOTAC and qPCR.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Article
- Currently Available Monitoring and Surveillance Systems forPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Toward the 2020 goal of soil-transmitted helminthiasis control and elimination.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
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Abstract
Substantial investment has been made into the once "neglected" tropical disease, soil-transmitted helminthiasis, and into control programs that operate within a framework of mapping baseline disease distribution, measuring the effectiveness of applied interventions, establishing when to cease drug administration, and for posttreatment evaluations. However, critical to each of these stages is the determination of helminth infection. The limitations of traditional microscope-based fecal egg diagnostics have not provided quality assurance in the monitoring of parasite disease and suboptimal treatment regimes provide for the potential development of parasite resistance to anthelmintic drugs. Improved diagnostic and surveillance tools are required to protect therapeutic effectiveness and to maintain funder confidence. Such tools may be on the horizon with emergent technologies that offer potential for enhanced visualization and quality-assured quantitation of helminth eggs.
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