Code
01W07020
Duration
01 October 2020 → 09 June 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Medical and health sciences
- Preventive medicine
- Public health services not elsewhere classified
- Diagnostics not elsewhere classified
- Parasitology
- Tropical medicine not elsewhere classified
Keywords
soil-transmitted helminths
Ascaris
Trichuris
hookworms
stool
serum
antibody - ELISA
qPCR
interruption of disease transmission
large-scale
deworming programs
Project description
Large-scale deworming programs against soil-transmitted helminths (STH) are moving from morbidity control towards interruption of STH transmission. However, there are currently few diagnostic tools that may reliably inform the program when to stop the administration of drugs. We will evaluate qPCR and anti-body ELISAs as diagnostic tools to assess the interruption of STH transmission.