Performance of real-time polymerase chain reaction and Kato-Katz for diagnosing soil-transmitted helminth infections and evaluating treatment efficacy of emodepside in randomized controlled trials

• Christian N. Lotz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian N. Lotz, Emmanuel C. Mrimi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Emmanuel C. Mrimi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian N. Lotz, Emmanuel C. Mrimi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Ifakara Health Institute, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Pierre H. H. Schneeberger,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Said M. Ali,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health Laboratory-Ivo de Carneri, Chake Chake, Pemba, Tanzania

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• Jan Hattendorf,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Jennifer Keiser

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

  * E-mail: Jennifer.keiser@swisstph.ch

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0290-3521

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