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Cost-effectiveness of using a rapid diagnostic test to screen for human African trypanosomiasis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

New rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for screening human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) have been introduced as alternatives to the card agglutination test for trypanosomiasis (CATT). One brand of RDT, the SD BIOLINE HAT RDT has been shown to have lower specificity but higher sensitivity than CATT, so t...

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Autores principales: Bessell, Paul R., Lumbala, Crispin, Lutumba, Pascal, Baloji, Sylvain, Biéler, Sylvain, Ndung'u, Joseph M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30240406
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204335