PMID- 11809358
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20020220
LR  - 20190901
IS  - 0895-4356 (Print)
IS  - 0895-4356 (Linking)
VI  - 55
IP  - 2
DP  - 2002 Feb
TI  - Interest of LQAS method in a survey of HTLV-I infection in Benin (West Africa).
PG  - 192-6
AB  - HTLV-I is heterogeneously distributed in Sub-Saharan Africa. Traditional survey 
      methods as cluster sampling could provide information for a country or region of 
      interest. However, they cannot identify small areas with higher prevalences of 
      infection to help in the health policy planning. Identification of such areas 
      could be done by a Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) method, which is 
      currently used in industry to identify a poor performance in assembly lines. The 
      LQAS method was used in Atacora (Northern Benin) between March and May 1998 to 
      identify areas with a HTLV-I seroprevalence higher than 4%. Sixty-five subjects 
      were randomly selected in each of 36 communes (lots) of this department. Lots 
      were classified as unacceptable when the sample contained at least one positive 
      subject. The LQAS method identified 25 (69.4 %) communes with a prevalence higher 
      than 4%. Using stratified sampling theory, the overall HTLV-I seroprevalence was 
      4.5% (95% CI: 3.6-5.4%). These data show the interest of LQAS method application 
      under field conditions to detect clusters of infection.
FAU - Houinato, Dismand
AU  - Houinato D
AD  - Institute of Neuroepidemiology and Tropical Neurology, School of Medicine, 2 rue 
      du Dr Marcland, 87025 Limoges, France.
FAU - Preux, Pierre-Marie
AU  - Preux PM
FAU - Charriere, Benedicte
AU  - Charriere B
FAU - Massit, Bruno
AU  - Massit B
FAU - Avode, Gilbert
AU  - Avode G
FAU - Denis, Francois
AU  - Denis F
FAU - Dumas, Michel
AU  - Dumas M
FAU - Boutros-Toni, Fernand
AU  - Boutros-Toni F
FAU - Salamon, Roger
AU  - Salamon R
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - J Clin Epidemiol
JT  - Journal of clinical epidemiology
JID - 8801383
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Aged, 80 and over
MH  - Benin/epidemiology
MH  - *Epidemiologic Methods
MH  - Female
MH  - HTLV-I Infections/*epidemiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Quality Assurance, Health Care/*methods
MH  - Sample Size
MH  - Sampling Studies
EDAT- 2002/01/26 10:00
MHDA- 2002/02/21 10:01
CRDT- 2002/01/26 10:00
PHST- 2002/01/26 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2002/02/21 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2002/01/26 10:00 [entrez]
AID - S0895435601004632 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/s0895-4356(01)00463-2 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Clin Epidemiol. 2002 Feb;55(2):192-6. doi: 10.1016/s0895-4356(01)00463-2.