Clinical Research on Neglected Tropical Diseases: Challenges and Solutions

[...]it has also been demonstrated that these syndromic guidelines are frequently not being followed in endemic areas, in particular if the health care personnel do not receive specific training pertaining to these guidelines and are not involved in the process of developing such guidance tools [25].\n Contributors The NIDIAG consortium is composed of the following investigators from various institutions: 1. for the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium: Marleen Boelaert, Barbara Barbé, Emmanuel Bottieau, Christophe Burm, Philippe Büscher, Jozefien Buyze, Stijn Deborggraeve, Koen De Winne, Philippe Gillet, David Hendrickx, Arabella Huys, Jan Jacobs, Veerle Lejon, Filip Meheus, Joris Menten, Evelien Paessens, Katja Polman, Raffaella Ravinetto, Stijn Rogé, Céline Schurmans, Achilleas Tsoumanis, Johan Van Griensven, Harry van Loen, Kristien Verdonck, and Cédric Yansouni. 2. for the Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland: François Chappuis, Emilie Alirol, and Ninon S. Horié. 3. for the B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal: Suman Rijal, Nisha K. Bhatta, Narayan R. Bhattarai, Prahlad Karki, Basudha Khanal, Kanika Koirala, Bickram Pradhan, and Surendra Uranw. 4. for the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland: Jürg Utzinger, Sören L. Becker, Martin W. Bratschi, Justin K. Chatigre, Jean T. Coulibaly, Jean-Paul Gohou, Mathias Herrmann, Stefanie Knopp, Hanspeter Marti, Eliézer K. N'Goran, Beatrice Nickel, Pierre H.H. Schneeberger, Kigbafori D. Silué, Peter Steinmann, Lutz von Müller, Penelope Vounatsou, Joel A. Yao, Patrick K. Yao, and Peiling Yap. 5. for the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Pascal Lutumba, Claude Basilua, Edmonde Bonebe, Gustave Bukasa, Sebastien Inamba, Jean Roger Kalo Lilo, Vincent Kambale, Tharcisse Kayembe, Octavie Lunguya, Maria Mashako, Luigi Mininkulu, Alain Mpanya, Deby Mukendi, Dieudonné Mumba, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, and Pati Pyana. 6. for the University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan: Sayda El-Safi, Mannar Abdel-Rahman, Saad Ageed Al farazdag, Atia Atia, Abdallah Bashir, Ahmed Bashir, Mohammed Bashir, Mohamedelfateh Eljack, Alhabib Elhabib, Husam Elshikh, Awad Hammad, Mohammed Issa, Mohamed S. Mohamed, Mohammed O. Mohammedali, Salah Mohammed Ali, Modether Morsal, and Almugadam Shawgi. 7. for the Sihanouk Hospital Corporation, Pnom Penh, Cambodia: Lim Kruy, P. Maling Ellen, Leng Long, Manoza Maricel, Saman Ratan