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

• Asıl Yazarlar: Tália Santana Machado de Assis (Yazar), Paloma Nogueira Guimarães (Yazar), Edward Oliveira (Yazar), Vanessa Peruhype-Magalhães (Yazar), Luciana Inácia Gomes (Yazar), Ana Rabello (Yazar)
• Materyal Türü: Kitap
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Konular: 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...