Effective diagnostics are a crucial element of successful infectious disease management, yet their development and use, particularly in the developing world, remains a neglected area. To address this deficiency, TDR and Nature Reviews Microbiology have joined forces to produce a series of user-friendly diagnostic evaluation guides.

The focus of the third guide is visceral leishmaniasis and will contain the
following articles:

A guide for diagnostic evaluations
Rosanna W. Peeling, Peter G. Smith and Patrick M. M. Bossuyt

Visceral leishmaniasis: what are the needs for diagnosis, treatment
and control?
François Chappuis et al.

The Guides:
Evaluation of diagnostic tests for infectious diseases: general principles
The TDR Diagnostics Evaluation Expert Panel

Evaluation of rapid diagnostics tests: visceral leishmaniasis
Marleen Boelaert et al.

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