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External quality assessment of Giemsa-stained blood film microscopy for the diagnosis of malaria and sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Pierre Mukadi, Philippe Gillet, Albert Lukuka, Benjamin Atua, Nicole Sheshe, Albert Kanza, Jean Bosco Mayunda, Briston Mongita, Raphael Kabangwa K Senga, John Ngoyi,

Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2013 · 22 citations · 13 references

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Abstract

The overall quality of blood film microscopy was poor but was improved by participation in external quality assessments. The failure to recognize trypanosomes in a country where sleeping sickness is endemic is a concern.

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External quality assessment of national public health laboratories in Africa, 2002–2009

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Lieselotte Cnops, Jan Jacobs, Marjan Van Esbroeck · Clinical Microbiology and Infection · 2010 · 86 citations · Full text

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