Performance of Microscopy for the Diagnosis of Malaria and Human African Trypanosomiasis by Diagnostic Laboratories in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Results of a Nation-Wide External Quality Assessment

• Pierre Mukadi,

  Affiliations National Institute of Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, University of Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Veerle Lejon ,

  * E-mail: veerle.lejon@ird.fr

  Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France

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• Barbara Barbé,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Philippe Gillet,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Christophe Nyembo,

  Affiliation University of Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Albert Lukuka,

  Affiliation National Malaria Control Program, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Joris Likwela,

  Affiliation National Malaria Control Program, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Crispin Lumbala,

  Affiliation National Human African Trypanosomiasis Control Program, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Justin Mbaruku,

  Affiliation National Human African Trypanosomiasis Control Program, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Wim Vander Veken,

  Affiliation National Human African Trypanosomiasis Control Program, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Dieudonné Mumba,

  Affiliations National Institute of Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Pascal Lutumba,

  Affiliations National Institute of Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, University of Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Jean-Jacques Muyembe,

  Affiliations National Institute of Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Jan Jacobs

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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