Study of implementation and direct cost estimates for diagnostic tests for human visceral leishmaniasis in an urban area in Brazil

• Main Authors: Tália Santana Machado de Assis (Author), Paloma Nogueira Guimarães (Author), Edward Oliveira (Author), Vanessa Peruhype-Magalhães (Author), Luciana Inácia Gomes (Author), Ana Rabello (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract This work reports the process and costs of comprehensively implementing two tests to decentralize the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in an endemic city in Brazil: a rapid test (IT LEISH) and a direct agglutination test (DAT-LPC). The implementation began by training health profess...