Real-time PCR Demonstrates High Prevalence of Schistosoma japonicum in the Philippines: Implications for Surveillance and Control

• Catherine. A. Gordon ,

  * E-mail: Catherine.Gordon@qimrberghofer.edu.au (CAG); Don.McManus@qimrberghofer.edu.au (DPM)

  Affiliations Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, Infectious Diseases Division, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia, Discipline of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

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• Luz P. Acosta,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Research Institute of Tropical Medicine, Manila, Philippines

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• Geoffrey N. Gobert,

  Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, Infectious Diseases Division, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia

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• Remigio M. Olveda,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Research Institute of Tropical Medicine, Manila, Philippines

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• Allen G. Ross,

  Affiliation Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

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• Gail M. Williams,

  Affiliation Discipline of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

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• Darren J. Gray,

  Affiliations Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, Infectious Diseases Division, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia, Discipline of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Research School of Population Health, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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• Donald Harn,

  Affiliation University of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Yuesheng Li,

  Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, Infectious Diseases Division, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia

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• Donald P. McManus

  * E-mail: Catherine.Gordon@qimrberghofer.edu.au (CAG); Don.McManus@qimrberghofer.edu.au (DPM)

  Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, Infectious Diseases Division, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia

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