Poor performance of the rapid test for human brucellosis in health facilities in Kenya.

• Main Authors: William A de Glanville (Author), Raquel Conde-Álvarez (Author), Ignacio Moriyón (Author), John Njeru (Author), Ramón Díaz (Author), Elizabeth A J Cook (Author), Matilda Morin (Author), Barend M de C Bronsvoort (Author), Lian F Thomas (Author), Samuel Kariuki (Author), Eric M Fèvre (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Human brucellosis is considered to be an important but typically under-diagnosed cause of febrile illness in many low and middle-income countries. In Kenya, and throughout East Africa, laboratory diagnosis for the disease is based primarily on the febrile antigen Brucella agglutination test (FBAT),...