Innovative digital technologies for quality assurance of diagnosis of human African trypanosomiasis

Epco Hasker; Jean Kwete; Raquel Inocencio da Luz; Alain Mpanya; Nicolas Bebronne; Jacquies Makabuza; Yves Claeys; Jérémie Ilunga; Veerle Lejon; Dieudonné Mumba Ngoyi; Philippe Büscher; Marleen Boelaert; Erick Mwamba Miaka

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0006664

Innovative digital technologies for quality assurance of diagnosis of human African trypanosomiasis

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2018 Sep 13;12(9):e0006664. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006664. eCollection 2018 Sep.

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Tropical Medicine, Department of Public Health, Antwerp, Belgium.
² Programme National de Lutte Contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
³ Institute of Tropical Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁴ Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
⁵ Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Department of Parasitology, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Diagnostic Tests, Routine / methods*
Humans
Quality Assurance, Health Care / methods*
Trypanosomiasis, African / diagnosis*

Grants and funding

We gratefully acknowledge financial support of the Belgian Development cooperation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the development of the Android 5 compatible application (DRIA-2014-306-DiTECT-HAT) is funded by the EDCTP2 programme, which is supported under Horizon 2020, the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.