Treatment and control of human African trypanosomiasis
Current Opinion in Infectious DiseasesPublished 4 November 2004
J Jannin, P Cattand
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How the disease has influenced over time the evolution of strategies for surveillance and control is shown, and prospects for new, more-specific and sensitive diagnostic tools and a safer drug will undoubtedly improve the accuracy of patient recruitment and facilitate treatment, and provide ways towards new strategic opportunities.
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Following the description of the disease, and diagnostic tools and drugs that have been used, and are still in use today, the authors show how it has influenced over time the evolution of strategies for surveillance and control. Recent developments and prospects for new, more-specific and sensitive diagnostic tools and a safer drug will undoubtedly improve the accuracy of patient recruitment and facilitate treatment, and provide ways towards new strategic opportunities.
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