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@article{French:2007:10.1016/j.jpurol.2007.01.198,
author = {French, MD and Rollinson, D and Basanez, M-G and Mgeni, AF and Khamis, IS},
doi = {10.1016/j.jpurol.2007.01.198},
journal = {Journal of Pediatric Urology},
pages = {364--368},
title = {School-based control of urinary schistosomiasis on Zanzibar, Tanzania: Monitoring micro-haematuria with reagent strips as a rapid urological assessment},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpurol.2007.01.198},
volume = {3},
year = {2007}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - Objective: To evaluate micro-haematuria, detected by Haemastix reagent strips, for diagnosis of urinary schistosomiasis during a 3-year period of school-based control on Zanzibar. Patients and methods: A sub-set of school children, from a total of 135,000 who were receiving treatment for urinary schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis, were monitored by parasitological and questionnaire methods for Schistosoma haematobium infections: at treatment baseline in 2004 (nZ2002), follow up with re-treatment in 2005 (nZ3278) and further follow up with re-treatment in 2006 (nZ3993). Standard diagnostic scores for micro-haematuria were calculated against parasitological assessment. Results: Diagnostic scores of Haemastix remained strong throughout the 3-year period. In 2006, scores were: sensitivity (SS)=0.86 (95% CI: 0.86-0.88), specificity (SP)=0.99 (0.98-1.00), positive predictive value (PPV)=0.90 (0.88-0.91), negative predictive value (NPV)=0.98 (0.98-0.99) in boys; and SS=0.84 (0.82-0.86), SP=0.98 (0.98-0.99), PPV=0.77 (0.75-0.79) and NPV=0.99 (0.99-1.00) in girls. By comparison, reported blood in urine and pain upon urination were much lower and not as informative. Conclusion: At a cost of approximately £0.20/test, further use of reagent strips for monitoring of urinary schistosomiasis during ongoing control programmes should be advocated as a rapid, cost effective and informative disease surveillance tool.
AU - French,MD
AU - Rollinson,D
AU - Basanez,M-G
AU - Mgeni,AF
AU - Khamis,IS
DO - 10.1016/j.jpurol.2007.01.198
EP - 368
PY - 2007///
SP - 364
TI - School-based control of urinary schistosomiasis on Zanzibar, Tanzania: Monitoring micro-haematuria with reagent strips as a rapid urological assessment
T2 - Journal of Pediatric Urology
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpurol.2007.01.198
VL - 3
ER -
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