Accelerating elimination of sleeping sickness from the Guinean littoral through enhanced screening in the post-Ebola context: A retrospective analysis

Oumou Camara; Sylvain Biéler; Bruno Bucheton; Moïse Kagbadouno; Joseph Mathu Ndung’u; Philippe Solano; Mamadou Camara

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0009163

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Accelerating elimination of sleeping sickness from the Guinean littoral through enhanced screening in the post-Ebola context: A retrospective analysis

Oumou Camara ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Oumou Camara, Sylvain Biéler

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Conakry, Guinea
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Sylvain Biéler ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Oumou Camara, Sylvain Biéler

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: sylvain.bieler@finddx.org

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6994-9853

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Bruno Bucheton,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), INTERTRYP, CIRAD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3804-5426

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Moïse Kagbadouno,

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Conakry, Guinea
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Joseph Mathu Ndung’u,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland
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Philippe Solano,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), INTERTRYP, CIRAD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4351-3506

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Mamadou Camara

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Conakry, Guinea
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Accelerating elimination of sleeping sickness from the Guinean littoral through enhanced screening in the post-Ebola context: A retrospective analysis

Oumou Camara,
Sylvain Biéler,
Bruno Bucheton,
Moïse Kagbadouno,
Joseph Mathu Ndung’u,
Philippe Solano,
Mamadou Camara

Published: February 16, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009163

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