

@article {10952,
	title = {Methods for quantification of soil-transmitted helminths in environmental media: current techniques and recent advances},
	journal = {Trends in parasitology},
	volume = {31},
	number = {12},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {625{\textendash}639},
	abstract = {Limiting the environmental transmission of soil-transmitted helminths (STH), which infect 1.5 billion people worldwide, will require sensitive, reliable, and cost effective methods to detect and quantify STH in the environment. We review the state of the art of STH quantification in soil, biosolids, water, produce, and vegetation with respect to four major methodological issues: environmental sampling; recovery of STH from environmental matrices; quantification of recovered STH; and viability assessment of STH ova. We conclude that methods for sampling and recovering STH 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.},
	issn = {1471-4922},
	doi = {10.1016/j.pt.2015.08.007},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4679500/},
	author = {Collender, Philip A and Kirby, Amy E and Addiss, David G and Freeman, Matthew C and Remais, Justin V}
}
