Point-of-Care Testing for Infectious Diseases: Diversity, Complexity, and Barriers in Low- And Middle-Income Countries
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- 4 September 2012
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 9 (9), e1001306
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001306
Abstract
Madhukar Pai and colleagues discuss a framework for envisioning how point-of-care testing can be applied to infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries.Keywords
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