External quality assurance with dried tube specimens (DTS) for point-of-care syphilis and HIV tests: Experience in an indigenous populations screening programme in the Brazilian Amazon

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 14-18

  Benzaken, Adele Schwartz ^a,b   Bazzo, Maria Luiza ^c   Galban, Enrique ^a   Pinto, Ione Conceição Pereira ^a   Nogueira, Christiane Lourenço ^c   Golfetto, Lisléia ^c   Benzaken, Nina Schwartz ^d   Sollis, Kimberly A ^e   Mabey, David ^e   Peeling, Rosanna W ^e  

^a Alfredo da Matta Foundation   (Brazil)

^b UNAIDS Brazil   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDADE NILTON LINS   (Brazil)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; DRIED TUBE SPECIMEN; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCREENING TEST; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; SYPHILIS;

HIV; SCREENING; SYPHILIS; TESTING;

BRAZIL; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MASS SCREENING; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYPHILIS;

EID: 84895530113     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051181     Document Type: Article

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