Detection of soil-transmitted helminths and Schistosoma spp. by nucleic acid amplification test: Results of the first 5 years of the only international external quality assessment scheme

• Annemiek H. J. Schutte,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Rob Koelewijn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Sitara S. R. Ajjampur,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Bruno Levecke,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• James S. McCarthy,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Australia

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• Rojelio Mejia,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics–Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Steven A. Williams,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jaco J. Verweij,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands

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• Lisette van Lieshout,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases (LU-CID); Parasitology group, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Jaap J. van Hellemond

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

  * E-mail: j.vanhellemond@erasmusmc.nl

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4862-7796

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