Diagnostic accuracy of the Leishmania OligoC-TesT and NASBA-Oligochromatography for diagnosis of leishmaniasis in Sudan.

• Main Authors: Alfarazdeg A Saad (Author), Nuha G Ahmed (Author), Osman S Osman (Author), Ahmed Almustafa Al-Basheer (Author), Awad Hamad (Author), Stijn Deborggraeve (Author), Philippe Büscher (Author), Gerard J Schoone (Author), Henk D Schallig (Author), Thierry Laurent (Author), Ahmed Haleem (Author), Omran F Osman (Author), Ahmed Mohamedain Eltom (Author), Mustafa I Elbashir (Author), Sayda El-Safi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>The Leishmania OligoC-TesT and NASBA-Oligochromatography (OC) were recently developed for simplified and standardised molecular detection of Leishmania parasites in clinical specimens. We here present the phase II evaluation of both tests for diagnosis of visceral leis...