Comparison of the egg recovery rates and limit of detection for soil-transmitted helminths using the Kato-Katz thick smear, faecal flotation and quantitative real-time PCR in human stool

• Patsy A. Zendejas-Heredia ,

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

  * E-mail: patsy.zendejas@unimelb.edu.au

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4072-7728

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• Vito Colella,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Sze Fui Hii,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4831-9382

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• Rebecca J. Traub

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

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7484-7592

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