All that glitters is not gold: An interpretive framework for diagnostic test evaluation using Ascaris lumbricoides as a conceptual example

Matthew Denwood; Søren Saxmose Nielsen; Abbey Olsen; Hayley E Jones; Luc E Coffeng; Gustavo Landfried; Martin K Nielsen; Bruno Levecke; Stig Milan Thamsborg; Paolo Eusebi; Eleftherios Meletis; Polychronis Kostoulas; Sonja Hartnack; Berra Erkosar; Nils Toft

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0012481

All that glitters is not gold: An interpretive framework for diagnostic test evaluation using Ascaris lumbricoides as a conceptual example

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2024 Sep 26;18(9):e0012481. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012481. eCollection 2024 Sep.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copengagen, Denmark.
² Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
⁴ Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Computación, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁵ M.H. Gluck Equine Research Center, Department of Veterinary Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America.
⁶ Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
⁷ Independent Researcher, Foligno, Italy.
⁸ Faculty of Public & One Health, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece.
⁹ Section of Epidemiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁰ FIND, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹¹ Toft Analytics ApS, Værløse, Denmark.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Ascariasis* / diagnosis
Ascariasis* / parasitology
Ascaris lumbricoides* / isolation & purification
Diagnostic Tests, Routine* / methods
Humans

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Task Force for Global Health (https://www.taskforce.org; project ID S089U to MD). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.