Revisiting the Immune Trypanolysis Test to Optimise Epidemiological Surveillance and Control of Sleeping Sickness in West Africa

BACKGROUND: Because of its high sensitivity and its ease of use in the field, the card agglutination test for trypanosomiasis (CATT) is widely used for mass screening of sleeping sickness. However, the CATT exhibits false-positive results (i) raising the question of whether CATT-positive subjects wh...

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Autores principales: Jamonneau, Vincent, Bucheton, Bruno, Kaboré, Jacques, Ilboudo, Hamidou, Camara, Oumou, Courtin, Fabrice, Solano, Philippe, Kaba, Dramane, Kambire, Roger, Lingue, Kouakou, Camara, Mamadou, Baelmans, Rudy, Lejon, Veerle, Büscher, Philippe
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3006129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21200417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000917

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3006129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21200417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000917

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