Urinary schistosomiasis caused by Schistosoma
haematobium constitutes a major public health problem in
many tropical and sub-tropical countries. This study was
conducted to evaluate circulating cathodic antigen cassette
test and haematuria strip test for detection of S. haematobium
in urine samples and to evaluate their screening
performance among the study population. Microscopy was
used as a gold standard. A total of 600 urine samples were
examined by microscopy for detection of S. haematobium
eggs, screened for microhaematuria using Self-Stik reagent
strips and screened for circulating cathodic antigen (CCA)
using the urine-CCA cassette test. The specificity of CCA,
microhaematuria and macrohaematuria was 96.4, 40.6 and
31.2 % respectively while the sensitivity was 88.2, 99.3
and 100 % respectively which was statistically significant
(P.001). These findings suggest that using of urine- |
