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Prevalence and under-detection of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis during mass screening sessions in Uganda and Sudan

BACKGROUND: Active case detection through mass community screening is a major control strategy against human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, sleeping sickness) caused by T. brucei gambiense. However, its impact can be limited by incomplete attendance at screening sessions (screening coverage) and diag...

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Autores principales: Checchi, Francesco, Cox, Andrew P, Chappuis, François, Priotto, Gerardo, Chandramohan, Daniel, Haydon, Daniel T
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3430581/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22871103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-5-157