In order to improve standardization of operational procedures, scientists from Jimma University in Ethiopia and Ghent University in Belgium have developed seven visual tutorials focusing on schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis. The video tutorials include instruction on how to do each of the following:

• performing both traditional and newly developed methods to diagnose and quantify infections in stool, including
• Kato-Katz thick smear
• McMaster egg counting method and
• Mini-FLOTAC
• organizing the laboratory for assessing a large number of samples
• preserving stool samples for molecular analysis
• pooling stool samples for a cost-effective assessment of infections
• assessing anthelmintic drug efficacy against these neglected tropical diseases at a school