Leprosy Diagnostic Test Development As a Prerequisite Towards Elimination: Requirements from the User's Perspective

Edith Roset Bahmanyar; William Cairns Smith; Patrick Brennan; Ray Cummings; Malcolm Duthie; Jan Hendrik Richardus; Paul Saunderson; Tin Shwe; Steven Rosen; Annemieke Geluk

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004331

Leprosy Diagnostic Test Development As a Prerequisite Towards Elimination: Requirements from the User's Perspective

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Feb 11;10(2):e0004331. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004331. eCollection 2016 Feb.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Novartis Foundation, Novartis Campus, Basel, Switzerland.
² School of Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America.
⁴ PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
⁵ Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
⁶ Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁷ American Leprosy Missions, Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America.
⁸ American Leprosy Missions, Yangon, Myanmar.
⁹ Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, New Jersey, United States of America.
¹⁰ Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Diagnostic Tests, Routine / methods*
Disease Eradication / methods
Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control
Global Health
Humans
Leprosy / diagnosis*
Leprosy / drug therapy
Leprosy / prevention & control
Predictive Value of Tests
Sensitivity and Specificity

Grants and funding

The expert panel was supported by the Novartis Foundation. The Novartis Foundation also funded all costs associated with the development and publishing of the present manuscript. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.