Stage determination in sleeping sickness: Comparison of two cell counting and two parasite detection techniques

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 778-782

  Mumba Ngoyi, Dieudonné ^a,b   Menten, Joris ^c   Pyana, Pati Patient ^a   Büscher, Philippe ^c   Lejon, Veerle ^c,d  

^a Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale   (Congo)

^b cliniques universitaires de Kinshasa   (Congo)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d Institut de recherche pour le développement   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; Human African trypanosomiasis; Sleeping sickness; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DISEASE TREATMENT; NEUROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; PARASITE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLEEP;

ADULT; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CENTRIFUGATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARASITE DETECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRYPANOSOMA;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

AFRICA; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE;

EID: 84878136000     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12102     Document Type: Article

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