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ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2023

High Specificity but Low Sensitivity of Lab-on-a-Disk Technique in Detecting Soil-Transmitted Helminth Eggs among Pre- and School-Aged Children in North-Western Tanzania.

Humphrey D Mazigo, Nyanda C Justine, Jeffer Bhuko, Sarah Rubagumya, Namanya Basinda, Maria M Zinga, Deodatus Ruganuza, Vyacheslav R Misko, Matthieu Briet, Filip Legein and 1 more

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Article in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Humphrey D MazigoDepartment of Medical Parasitology and Entomology, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza P.O. Box 1464, Tanzania.
Nyanda C JustineDepartment of Medical Parasitology and Entomology, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza P.O. Box 1464, Tanzania.ORCID 0000-0002-7430-3931
Jeffer BhukoDepartment of Medical Parasitology and Entomology, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza P.O. Box 1464, Tanzania.
Sarah RubagumyaDepartment of Microbiology, Parasitology and Biotechnology, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Chuo Kikuu, Morogoro P.O. Box 3000, Tanzania.
Namanya BasindaDepartment of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza P.O. Box 1464, Tanzania.ORCID 0000-0003-4262-3508
Maria M ZingaDepartment of Medical Parasitology and Entomology, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza P.O. Box 1464, Tanzania.
Deodatus RuganuzaDepartment of Medical Parasitology and Entomology, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza P.O. Box 1464, Tanzania.
Vyacheslav R MiskoµFlow Group, Department of Bioengineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-5290-412X
Matthieu BrietµFlow Group, Department of Bioengineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Filip LegeinµFlow Group, Department of Bioengineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Wim De MalscheµFlow Group, Department of Bioengineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-1955-7912
Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences · TZVrije Universiteit Brussel · BESokoine University of Agriculture · TZ

Funding

VLIR-UOS (project Single Image Parasite Quantification Project, South Initiatives 2020) Single Image Parasite Quantification Project, South Initiatives 2020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An estimated 1.5 billion people are infected with soil-transmitted helminths (hookworms,

Indexed as

diagnosisLab-on-a-disksensitivitysoil-transmitted helminthsspecificityTanzania

Identifiers

PMID38276635
PMCPMC10818991
OpenAlexW4390090417

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