Prevalence and under-detection of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis during mass screening sessions in Uganda and Sudan

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Checchi, Francesco ^a   Cox, Andrew P ^a   Chappuis, François ^b,c   Priotto, Gerardo ^d   Chandramohan, Daniel ^a   Haydon, Daniel T ^e  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^d EPICENTRE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case detection; Coverage; Gambiense; Mathematical model; Prevalence; Screening; Sleeping sickness; Sudan; Trypanosomiasis; Uganda

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POPULATION SIZE; SUDAN; TRYPANOSOMA GAMBIENSE; UGANDA;

HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SUDAN; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; UGANDA;

ARUA;

EID: 84864744666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-157     Document Type: Article

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