- [[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?