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Leishmaniasis Direct Agglutination Test: Using Pictorials as Training Materials to Reduce Inter-Reader Variability and Improve Accuracy

BACKGROUND: The Direct Agglutination Test (DAT) has a high diagnostic accuracy and remains, in some geographical areas, part of the diagnostic algorithm for Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL). However, subjective interpretation of results introduces potential for inter-reader variation. We report an assess...

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Autores principales: Adams, Emily R., Jacquet, Diane, Schoone, Gerard, Gidwani, Kamlesh, Boelaert, Marleen, Cunningham, Jane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3521667/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23272257
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001946