Using the prevalence of individual species of intestinal nematode worms to estimate the combined prevalence of any species.

To assess if a probabilistic model could be used to estimate the combined prevalence of infection with any species of intestinal nematode worm when only the separate prevalence of each species is reported, and to estimate the extent to which simply taking the highest individual species prevalence un...

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Main Authors: Nilanthi de Silva, Andrew Hall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-04-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2854118?pdf=render