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