Publications by authors named "Rajeshkumar Rajendiran"
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- * Researchers developed a sensitive method to detect STH DNA in soil samples (20 g) from households in Kenya, Benin, and India, using advanced techniques like qPCR and ddPCR to identify specific STH species.
- * The study found a significant association between STH detection in soil and human infections, highlighting that soil tests could be more reliable than microscopy, which often underestimated or overestimated STH prevalence.
Current soil-transmitted helminth (STH) programs target morbidity control with school-based deworming. Increasing interest in steering neglected tropical disease (NTD) programmes from morbidity control towards disease elimination has prompted evaluation of strategies that may interrupt transmission. The feasibility of interrupting transmission of STH with community-wide deworming is being tested in the ongoing DeWorm3 cluster randomized trial.
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