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

• Главные авторы: Tália Santana Machado de Assis (Автор), Paloma Nogueira Guimarães (Автор), Edward Oliveira (Автор), Vanessa Peruhype-Magalhães (Автор), Luciana Inácia Gomes (Автор), Ana Rabello (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...