A smartphone dongle for diagnosis of infectious diseases at the point of care
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- 4 February 2015
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science Translational Medicine
- Vol. 7 (273), 273re1
- https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa0056
Abstract
A smartphone accessory can perform a point-of-care test that simultaneously detects three infectious disease markers from fingerprick whole blood in 15 min, as operated by health care workers trained on a software app.Keywords
Funding Information
- USAID
- Gates Foundation
- Wallace H. Coulter Foundation
- World Bank
- Grand Challenges Canada
- Government of Norway
- Royal Thai Government Scholarship
- Columbia University Medical Scientist Training Program
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