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  • Title: Methods for Quantification of Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Environmental Media: Current Techniques and Recent Advances.
    Author: Collender PA, Kirby AE, Addiss DG, Freeman MC, Remais JV.
    Journal: Trends Parasitol; 2015 Dec; 31(12):625-639. PubMed ID: 26440788.
    Abstract:
    Limiting the environmental transmission of soil-transmitted helminths (STHs), which infect 1.5 billion people worldwide, will require sensitive, reliable, and cost-effective methods to detect and quantify STHs in the environment. We review the state-of-the-art of STH quantification in soil, biosolids, water, produce, and vegetation with regard to four major methodological issues: environmental sampling; recovery of STHs from environmental matrices; quantification of recovered STHs; and viability assessment of STH ova. We conclude that methods for sampling and recovering STHs require substantial advances to provide reliable measurements for STH control. Recent innovations in the use of automated image identification and developments in molecular genetic assays offer considerable promise for improving quantification and viability assessment.
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