Prevalence of human African trypanosomiasis in the democratic republic of the Congo

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Mumba, Dieudonne ^a   Bohorquez, Elaine ^b   Messina, Jane ^c   Kande, Victor ^d   Taylor, Steven M ^b   Tshefu, Antoinette K ^e   Muwonga, Jeremie ^f   Kashamuka, Melchior M ^b   Emch, Michael ^c   Tidwell, Richard ^g   Büscher, Philippe ^h   Meshnick, Steven R ^b  

^a Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale   (Congo)

^b IL   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d Programme National de Lutte Contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine   (Congo)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

^f Programme National de Lutte contre la SIDA   (Congo)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONGO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; BLOOD; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EID: 80052413198     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001246     Document Type: Article

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