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Volume 29, Number 12—December 2023
Research

Cross-Sectional Study of Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases in Black Belt Region of Alabama, USA

Claudette PooleComments to Author , Troy Barker, Richard Bradbury, Drew Capone, Amy Hutson Chatham, Sukwan Handali, Eduardo Rodriguez, Yvonne Qvarnstrom, and Joe Brown
Author affiliations: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA (C. Poole, A. Hutson Chatham); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA (T. Barker, J. Brown); Federation University, Australia (R. Bradbury); Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA (D. Capone); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (S. Handali, E. Rodriguez, Y. Qvarnstrom)

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Table 3

Estimated sensitivity to detect STH infection by assay method in a single infected child for different assumed intensity infections (for fecal testing methods used in a STH prevalence study conducted in Lowndes, Wilcox, and Perry Counties, Alabama, USA, December 2019–August 2022*

Egg/g feces from 1 child
 Mini-FLOTAC, triplicate, %
 qPCR, single, %
 dPCR, single, %
 Combined, %
Sensitivity accounting for recovery
1 2 2 18 20
3 5 6 53 55
5 9 10 89 90
7 12 14 100 100
10 17 20 100 100
100
 93
 100
 100
 100
Sensitivity not accounting for recovery
1 2 10 90 91
3 7 30 100 100
5 12 51 100 100
7 17 71 100 100
10 23 100 100 100
100 99 100 100 100

*dPCR, digital PCR; qPCR, quantitative PCR.

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