Instruction form on how to collect whole-stool samples for the study.

<p>Instruction form on how to collect whole-stool samples for the study.</p

Flowchart detailing inclusion and exclusion of study participants and use for the various analysis including helminth prevalences.

<p>n, number of whole-stool samples; N, number of stool pieces.</p

Mean FECs (expressed as EPGs) in different stool pieces along the length axis of whole-stool samples, among 59 helminth-positive participants from Azaguié, Côte d'Ivoire, in 2010.

<p>Mean FECs (expressed as EPGs) in different stool pieces along the length axis of whole-stool samples, among 59 helminth-positive participants from Azaguié, Côte d'Ivoire, in 2010.</p

Number of stool samples in each consistency category by infection status (any helminth infection), from 222 study participants from Azaguié, Côte d'Ivoire, in 2010.

*<p>Nine helminth-positive stool samples were too small to allocate them to any consistency category.</p

Processing of stool samples according to consistency including whole-stool homogenization.

<p>*Sausage-shaped-but-soft samples were processed like in (A) without taking samples from the center.</p

Mean eggs per gram (EPG) values in surface and center of stool samples, among 102 helminth-positive participants from Azaguié Côte d'Ivoire, in 2010.

<p>Mean eggs per gram (EPG) values in surface and center of stool samples, among 102 helminth-positive participants from Azaguié Côte d'Ivoire, in 2010.</p

Adverse events 4 and 24 hours after administration of crushed praziquantel tablets (<i>n</i> = 234).

<p>The study was carried out in two villages in Azaguié, south Côte d'Ivoire between June and November 2011, focusing on preschool-aged children.</p

<i>S. mansoni</i> and <i>S. haematobium</i> cure and egg reduction rates, as assessed 3 weeks after praziquantel treatment, stratified by diagnostic approach.

<p>The study was carried out in two villages in Azaguié, south Côte d'Ivoire, between June and November 2011, focusing on preschool-aged children.</p><p>CI, confidence interval; CR, cure rate; EPG, eggs/gram of stool; ERR, egg reduction rate; NA, not applicable; POC-CCA, point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen.</p

Baseline prevalence of <i>S. mansoni</i> and <i>S. haematobium</i>, stratified by sex and diagnostic approach.

<p>The study was carried out in two villages in Azaguié, south Côte d'Ivoire, between June and November 2011. All preschool-aged children who had at least one stool sample examined with duplicate Kato-Katz thick smears and one urine sample subjected to a filtration method before and 3 weeks after praziquantel administration were included (per-protocol analysis).</p><p>POC-CCA, point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen.</p

Flow chart and study adherence.

<p>The study was carried out in the villages of Azaguié Makouguié and Azaguié M'Bromé in south Côte d'Ivoire, between June and November 2011.</p