McArthur revisited: fluorescence microscopes for field diagnostics

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 468-469

  Jones, David ^a   Nyalwidhe, Julius ^a   Tetley, Laurence ^b   Barrett, Michael P ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MALARIA;

ACRIDINE ORANGE; ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 34648824904     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2007.08.003     Document Type: Letter

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