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Determining Soil-transmitted Helminth Infection Status and Physical Fitness of School-aged Children
Published on: August 22, 2012
Mobile phone microscopy for the diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminth infections: a proof-of-concept study
Isaac I Bogoch1, Jason R Andrews, Benjamin Speich
1Divisions of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. isaac.bogoch@uhn.ca
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
|March 13, 2013
Abstract:
We created a mobile phone microscope and assessed its accuracy for the diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminths compared with conventional microscopy. Mobile phone microscopy has a sensitivity of 69.4% for detecting any helminth egg and sensitivities of 81.0%, 54.4%, and 14.3% for the diagnosis of Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworm respectively.
