Agreement between different techniques for the diagnosis of S. mansoni.

The study was carried out in three settings in south Côte d'Ivoire in October and November 2010. The κ-agreement of a single Kato-Katz thick smear from the first collected stool sample, triplicate Kato-Katz thick smears from the first collected stool sample, one CCA-A from the first collected urine sample, three CCA-A tests from three collected urine samples, one CCA-B test from the first collected urine sample, and one ether-concentration test on SAF-fixed stool samples from the second collected stool sample versus our diagnostic ‘gold’ standard of nine Kato-Katz thick smears (triplicate Kato-Katz thick smears from each of three stool samples) for the diagnosis of S. mansoni was calculated.*Κ stands for kappa, κ[27], [28].