Performance evaluation of Baermann techniques: The quest for developing a microscopy reference standard for the diagnosis of Strongyloides stercoralis

• Woyneshet Gelaye ,

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

  * E-mail: woyn1978mam@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Bahir Dar University, College of Medicine and Health Science, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8128-1048

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• Nana Aba Williams,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic—Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3520-7573

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• Stella Kepha,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institution, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Augusto Messa Junior,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Investigaçao em Saúde da Manhiça (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1794-2462

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• Pedro Emanuel Fleitas,

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

  Affiliation Universidad Nacional de Salta, Instituto de Investigaciones de Enfermedades Tropicales/CONICET, Oran, Salta, Argentina

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6574-4586

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• Helena Marti-Soler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic—Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7127-205X

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• Destaw Damtie,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bahir Dar University, College of Science, Department of Biology, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7737-2932

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• Sissay Menkir,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bahir Dar University, College of Science, Department of Biology, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

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• Alejandro J. Krolewiecki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic—Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Instituto de Investigaciones de Enfermedades Tropicales/CONICET, Oran, Salta, Argentina

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9054-1211

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• Lisette van Lieshout,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Centre of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8170-1172

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• Wendemagegn Enbiale,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bahir Dar University, College of Medicine and Health Science, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

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• on behalf of the Stopping Transmission of Intestinal Parasites (STOP) project consortium

  ¶Membership of the Stopping Transmission of Intestinal Parasites (STOP) project consortium is provided in the acknowledgments

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