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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...
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 |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2010
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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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