Neopterin is a cerebrospinal fluid marker for treatment outcome evaluation in patients affected by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness.

BACKGROUND: Post-therapeutic follow-up is essential to confirm cure and to detect early treatment failures in patients affected by sleeping sickness (HAT). Current methods, based on finding of parasites in blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and counting of white blood cells (WBC) in CSF, are imperf...

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Principais autores:	Natalia Tiberti, Veerle Lejon, Alexandre Hainard, Bertrand Courtioux, Xavier Robin, Natacha Turck, Krister Kristensson, Enock Matovu, John Charles Enyaru, Dieudonné Mumba Ngoyi, Sanjeev Krishna, Sylvie Bisser, Joseph Mathu Ndung'u, Philippe Büscher, Jean-Charles Sanchez
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado em:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
coleção:	PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Acesso em linha:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3585011?pdf=render
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