Diagnosis of Soil-Transmitted Helminths in the Era of Preventive Chemotherapy: Effect of Multiple Stool Sampling and Use of Different Diagnostic Techniques

• Stefanie Knopp,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

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• Ali F. Mgeni,

  Affiliation Helminth Control Laboratory Unguja, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Zanzibar, Tanzania

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• I. Simba Khamis,

  Affiliation Helminth Control Laboratory Unguja, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Zanzibar, Tanzania

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• Peter Steinmann,

  Affiliations Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

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• J. Russell Stothard,

  Affiliation Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories, Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

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• David Rollinson,

  Affiliation Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories, Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

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• Hanspeter Marti,

  Affiliation Department of Medical and Diagnostic Services, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

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• Jürg Utzinger

  * E-mail: juerg.utzinger@unibas.ch

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

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