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In any disease situation, diagnosis is vital in determining asymptomatic, concurrent, current, new, and reinfection cases to evaluate the efficacy of any control program. We have evaluated the positive infection for <jats:italic>S. mansoni<\/jats:italic> from filtered urine samples collected from Zambian school children after MDA using loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) and compared its sensitivity and specificity with polymerase chain reaction (PCR). One hundred eleven urine samples collected from school children aged between 7 and 15 years from Siavonga district in southern Zambia were evaluated by PCR and LAMP for DNA extracted by two different protocols (filter-based versus crude extraction). The infection prevalence was 77% with PCR and almost 94% with mansoni-LAMP. Also, LAMP detected 16% (Qiagen extraction) and 10% (LAMP-Procedure for Ultra Rapid Extraction) more positive <jats:italic>S. mansoni<\/jats:italic> infection than PCR. We have demonstrated the efficacy of LAMP in a laboratory setup after MDA. The possible inclusion of LAMP as a field-based point-of-care test for surveillance can provide reliable prevalence of schistosomiasis after MDA and help in determining the efficacy of a control program.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.19-0121","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,21]],"date-time":"2019-05-21T07:01:08Z","timestamp":1558422068000},"page":"78-83","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Testing the Infection Prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni after Mass Drug Administration by Comparing Sensitivity and Specificity of Species-Specific Repeat Fragment Amplification by PCR and Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"101","author":[{"given":"Miriam","family":"Price","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, 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