Mini-FLOTAC and Kato-Katz: helminth eggs watching on the shore of lake Victoria
Open Access
- 31 July 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Parasites & Vectors
- Vol. 6 (1), 220-6
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-220
Abstract
One of the challenges for monitoring helminth control programmes based on preventive chemotherapy is the lack of a copro-parasitological gold–standard method that combines good sensitivity with quantitative performance, low cost, and easy-to-learn technique.Keywords
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