Leishmaniasis direct agglutination test: using pictorials as training materials to reduce inter-reader variability and improve accuracy.
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...
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Main Authors: | Emily R Adams (Author), Diane Jacquet (Author), Gerard Schoone (Author), Kamlesh Gidwani (Author), Marleen Boelaert (Author), Jane Cunningham (Author) |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS),
2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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