Sleeping sickness diagnosis: Use of buffy coats improves the sensitivity of the mini anion exchange centrifugation test

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 796-799

  Camara, Mamadou ^a   Camara, Oumou ^a,b   Ilboudo, Hamidou ^b   Sakande, Hassan ^b   Kaboré, Jacques ^b   N'Dri, Louis ^c   Jamonneau, Vincent ^b,d   Bucheton, Bruno ^b,d  

^a Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomose Humaine Africaine   (Guinea)

^b Institut de Recherche pour le Développement UMR 177   (Burkina Faso)

^c Institut Pierre Richet Bouake   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Buffy coat; Diagnosis; Human African trypanosomiasis; Mini anion exchange centrifugation technique (mAECT)

Indexed keywords

ANION; BLOOD; CENTRIFUGE; DISEASE TREATMENT; ENDEMISM; ION EXCHANGE; PARASITOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLY;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANION EXCHANGE; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; HEALTH SURVEY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CENTRIFUGATION; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PARASITOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

GUINEA;

EID: 77953187833     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02546.x     Document Type: Article

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