Evaluation of copromicroscopy and serology to measure the exposure to Ascaris infections across age groups and to assess the impact of 3 years of biannual mass drug administration in Jimma Town, Ethiopia

• Daniel Dana,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations School of Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Science, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Johnny Vlaminck ,

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

  * E-mail: Johnny.vlaminck@ugent.be (JV); Bruno.levecke@ugent.be (BL)

  Affiliation Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3601-9825

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• Mio Ayana,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Science, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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• Bamlaku Tadege,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium, School of Medicine, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia

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• Zeleke Mekonnen,

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

  Affiliation School of Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Science, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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• Peter Geldhof,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Bruno Levecke

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

  * E-mail: Johnny.vlaminck@ugent.be (JV); Bruno.levecke@ugent.be (BL)

  Affiliation Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8912-5595

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