Revisiting the Immune Trypanolysis Test to Optimise Epidemiological Surveillance and Control of Sleeping Sickness in West Africa

BACKGROUND: Because of its high sensitivity and its ease of use in the field, the card agglutination test for trypanosomiasis (CATT) is widely used for mass screening of sleeping sickness. However, the CATT exhibits false-positive results (i) raising the question of whether CATT-positive subjects wh...

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Main Authors: Jamonneau, Vincent, Bucheton, Bruno, Kaboré, Jacques, Ilboudo, Hamidou, Camara, Oumou, Courtin, Fabrice, Solano, Philippe, Kaba, Dramane, Kambire, Roger, Lingue, Kouakou, Camara, Mamadou, Baelmans, Rudy, Lejon, Veerle, Büscher, Philippe
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3006129/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21200417
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000917
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