Sensitivity and specificity of HAT Bioline Abbott® 2.0 and HAT Sero K-Set CORIS® 2.0 for human African trypanosomiasis in the Kasai-Oriental province, Democratic Republic of the Congo: a retrospective diagnostic accuracy study
Simon Kayembe, Fabien Vulu, Alain Mpanya, Eddy Kakiese, Rhyno Kalonji, Olivier Fataki, Nono-Raymond Swar Kuispond, Dieudonne Mumba Ngoyi · 2026
Read Sensitivity and specificity of HAT Bioline Abbott® 2.0 and HAT Sero K-Set CORIS® 2.0 for human African trypanosomiasis in the Kasai-Oriental province, Democratic Republic of the Congo: a retrospective diagnostic accuracy study by Simon Kayembe, Fabien Vulu, Alain Mpanya, Eddy Kakiese, Rhyno Kalonji, Olivier Fataki, Nono-Raymond Swar Kuispond, Dieudonne Mumba Ngoyi (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13520388.txt.
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Simon Kayembe and colleagues check in 2026 two rapid tests for African sleeping sickness in Kasai-Oriental province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, where cases have fallen toward elimination levels. In low-prevalence settings, false results matter greatly, so stored blood samples were tested against a strict reference method.
The set held 447 samples, with 227 confirmed cases and 220 controls. One test caught about 85 percent of cases with about 72 percent correct negatives, while the other caught about 90 percent of cases. Full specificity and paired comparisons follow in the results. Programme managers gain head-to-head accuracy figures for surveillance choices.
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| CREATOR | Simon Kayembe, Fabien Vulu, Alain Mpanya, Eddy Kakiese, Rhyno Kalonji, Olivier Fataki, Nono-Raymond Swar Kuispond, Dieudonne Mumba Ngoyi |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29601 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC0 |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |