Evaluation of LATEX/T.b.gambiense for mass screening of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness in Central Africa

Acta Tropica

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-37

  Penchenier, L ^a,e   Grebaut P ^a   Njokou, F ^b   Eboo Eyenga, V ^c   Buscher P ^d  

^a Organisation de Coordination pour la Lutte contre les Endemies en Afrique Centrale Cameroon   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^c Min of Publ Health and Population   (Cameroon)

^d INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

CATT; Central Africa; Diagnosis; Human African Trypanosomiasis; LATEX; Screening; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH MONITORING; MONITORING SYSTEM; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; FREEZE DRYING; HEMODILUTION; MASS SCREENING; NONHUMAN; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; MASS SCREENING; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

CAMEROON; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE;

EID: 0037216201     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(02)00232-2     Document Type: Article

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