First field-based molecular diagnostic test for African sleeping sickness in sight

Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 18:30 in Biology & Nature

A next-generation molecular test designed specifically for sleeping sickness -- a deadly parasitic disease also known as human African trypanosomiasis -- is ready to enter accelerated field trials in sites across the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, scientists report.

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