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

• Główni autorzy: Michael Marks (Autor), Adriana Goncalves (Autor), Ventis Vahi (Autor), Oliver Sokana (Autor), Elliot Puiahi (Autor), Zaixing Zhang (Autor), Tenneth Dalipanda (Autor), Christian Bottomley (Autor), David Mabey (Autor), Anthony W Solomon (Autor)
• Format: Książka
• Wydane: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...