Sleeping sickness active surveillance: field laboratory

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Sleeping sickness active surveillance: field laboratory. P Büscher. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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This is a field laboratory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that is part of an active surveillance programme for human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness). Its purpose is the control of HAT. A number of tests might be performed here, including screening blood for trypanosomes and testing serum.

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