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Reducing Human-Tsetse Contact Significantly Enhances the Efficacy of Sleeping Sickness Active Screening Campaigns: A Promising Result in the Context of Elimination

BACKGROUND: Control of gambiense sleeping sickness, a neglected tropical disease targeted for elimination by 2020, relies mainly on mass screening of populations at risk and treatment of cases. This strategy is however challenged by the existence of undetected reservoirs of parasites that contribute...

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Autores principales: Courtin, Fabrice, Camara, Mamadou, Rayaisse, Jean-Baptiste, Kagbadouno, Moise, Dama, Emilie, Camara, Oumou, Traoré, Ibrahima S., Rouamba, Jérémi, Peylhard, Moana, Somda, Martin B., Leno, Mamadou, Lehane, Mike J., Torr, Steve J., Solano, Philippe, Jamonneau, Vincent, Bucheton, Bruno
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4534387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26267667
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003727