Can One Afford Not to Screen for Parasites in High-Risk Immigrant Populations?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The article by Posey et al. [1] in this issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases emphasizes once again the high prevalence of schistosomiais and strongyloidiasis among African refugees. Similar findings have been noted in previous studies of refugees and immigrants from areas where these 2 parasites are endemic. For example, a very high seroprevalence of strongyloidiasis has been noted among refugees from Southeast Asia. In a Canadian study of Southeast Asian refugees, Gyorkos et al. [2] noted that 131 (76.6%) of 171 Kampucheans, 15 (55.6%) of 27 Laotians, and 4 (11.8%) of 34 Vietnamese persons were seropositive. It was interesting to note the lack of association between abdominal pain and the presence of parasites in the studied population. However, this is not at all unexpected, given the fact that the vast majority of persons with parasitic infections remain asymptomatic unless the worm burden is high and/or the long-term damage from a chronic infection has led to pathological changes sufficient to cause illness.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".