Elimination of sleeping sickness hindered by difcult diagnosis

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Lejon, Veerle ^a   Jacobs, Jan ^b   Simarro, Pere P ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITRYPANOSOMAL AGENT; PARASITE ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY DETECTION; CONGO; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDITORIAL; GIEMSA STAIN; GLOSSINIDAE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MALARIA; MASS SCREENING; MICROSCOPY; MIXED INFECTION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RAPID TEST; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAFF TRAINING; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 84884960912     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.13.126474     Document Type: Editorial

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