Accuracy of five algorithms to diagnose gambiense human African trypanosomiasis.

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Francesco Checchi (مؤلف), François Chappuis (مؤلف), Unni Karunakara (مؤلف), Gerardo Priotto (مؤلف), Daniel Chandramohan (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND: Algorithms to diagnose gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, sleeping sickness) are often complex due to the unsatisfactory sensitivity and/or specificity of available tests, and typically include a screening (serological), confirmation (parasitological) and staging component. Th...