Comparison of Kato Katz, antibody-based ELISA and droplet digital PCR diagnosis of schistosomiasis japonica: Lessons learnt from a setting of low infection intensity

• Pengfei Cai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pengfei Cai, Kosala G. Weerakoon

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Pengfei.Cai@qimrberghofer.edu.au (PC); Don.McManus@qimrberghofer.edu.au (DPM)

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4975-4615

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• Kosala G. Weerakoon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pengfei Cai, Kosala G. Weerakoon

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka

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• Yi Mu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Remigio M. Olveda,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Health, Manila, Philippines

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• Allen G. Ross,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia, icddr, b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• David U. Olveda,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Current address: Department of Pathology, JONELTA Foundation School of Medicine, University of Perpetual Help Rizal, Manila, Philippines

  Affiliation Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

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• Donald P. McManus

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Pengfei.Cai@qimrberghofer.edu.au (PC); Don.McManus@qimrberghofer.edu.au (DPM)

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6443-1449

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