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We would like to acknowledge the participants of the leishmaniasis working group at the Third Annual Meeting of the Diagnostics Evaluations Expert Committee who provided input to Table 2, especially A. Herring, N. Dendukuri and D. Kioy. We also gratefully acknowledge comments on the manuscript by H. Ghalib.
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Boelaert, M., Bhattacharya, S., Chappuis, F. et al. Evaluation of rapid diagnostic tests: visceral leishmaniasis. Nat Rev Microbiol 5 (Suppl 11), S31–S39 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro1766
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