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- [[Melaku]]
- [[2024/06/19]]
- What is your background?
- How did you end up in this?
- You are not a physician or a biology student, but in any case you've become an expert in Strongyloides stercoralis diagnosis. What types of diagnosis have you done? (elisa, pcr, baermann)
- You've also taught some people to do this and similar diagnosis. How does it feel?
- Where you already there at the beginnning of the S. stercolaris project in Ethiopia? I mean, were you there when you found out that the prevalence of S. stercoralis was pretty high?
- How did you feel once you could prove this parasite, immune to albendazole and mebendazole, was so prevalent in Ethiopia?
- The good thing is ivermectin is very effective. What does S. stercoralis infection cause in people (specially children)?
- what moves you to do what you do?