Revisiting the immune trypanolysis test to optimise epidemiological surveillance and control of sleeping sickness in West Africa.

• Main Authors: Vincent Jamonneau (Author), Bruno Bucheton (Author), Jacques Kaboré (Author), Hamidou Ilboudo (Author), Oumou Camara (Author), Fabrice Courtin (Author), Philippe Solano (Author), Dramane Kaba (Author), Roger Kambire (Author), Kouakou Lingue (Author), Mamadou Camara (Author), Rudy Baelmans (Author), Veerle Lejon (Author), Philippe Büscher (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Because of its high sensitivity and its ease of use in the field, the card agglutination test for trypanosomiasis (CATT) is widely used for mass screening of sleeping sickness. However, the CATT exhibits false-positive results (i) raising the question of whether CATT-positive subjects wh...