Joint Inserm & ALIMA field mission in Chad to launch a new study testing the feasibility of a new rapid test for Cryptosporidium in children consulting for diarrhoea in outpatient health centres
NewsSusan SHEPHERD (ALIMA) and Renaud BECQUET spent two weeks in the field in May 2018 in N’Djamena, Chad to launch the Prev’Crypto study. Diarrhoea is responsible for about 10% of the overall mortality of children under five. Carrying the Cryptosporidium parasite in the stool appears to be a major cause of diarrheal child mortality in […]