Leishmaniasis direct agglutination test: using pictorials as training materials to reduce inter-reader variability and improve accuracy.

• Hlavní autoři: Emily R Adams (Autor), Diane Jacquet (Autor), Gerard Schoone (Autor), Kamlesh Gidwani (Autor), Marleen Boelaert (Autor), Jane Cunningham (Autor)
• Médium: Kniha
• Vydáno: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Témata: article
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BACKGROUND: The Direct Agglutination Test (DAT) has a high diagnostic accuracy and remains, in some geographical areas, part of the diagnostic algorithm for Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL). However, subjective interpretation of results introduces potential for inter-reader variation. We report an assess...