Assessing stool quantities generated by three specific Kato-Katz thick smear templates employed in different settings
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Assessing stool quantities generated by three specific Kato-Katz thick smear templates employed in different settings
BACKGROUND The Kato-Katz technique is recommended for the diagnosis of helminth infections in epidemiological surveys, drug efficacy studies and monitoring of control interventions. We assessed the comparability of the average amount of faeces generated by three Kato-Katz templates included in test kits from two different providers. METHODS Nine hundred Kato-Katz thick smear preparations were...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infectious Diseases of Poverty
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2049-9957
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-016-0150-9