Evaluation of a rapid diagnostic test for yaws infection in a community surveillance setting.

• Main Authors: Michael Marks (Author), Adriana Goncalves (Author), Ventis Vahi (Author), Oliver Sokana (Author), Elliot Puiahi (Author), Zaixing Zhang (Author), Tenneth Dalipanda (Author), Christian Bottomley (Author), David Mabey (Author), Anthony W Solomon (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Yaws is a non-venereal treponemal infection caused by Treponema pallidum ssp. pertenue. The WHO has launched a worldwide control programme, which aims to eradicate yaws by 2020. The development of a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) for serological diagnosis in the isolated communities affected by yaws is...