Rapid palm sized-all in one tuberculosis screening system

ICBPE 2006 - Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 381-385

  Pariwono, A M ^a   Lim, C S ^a   Lo, S T ^a   Amrie, Y ^b   Muchtar, A ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Diagnostic Laboratory   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Biosensor; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Rapid screening system; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHEMICALS; DENDRITES (METALLOGRAPHY); SENSORS;

BIO SENSOR; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; OPTICAL TECHNIQUES; PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING; SAMPLE COLLECTION; SCREENING SYSTEMS; THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES; TUBERCULOSIS (TB);

DETECTORS;

EID: 46249091423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBPE.2006.348618     Document Type: Conference Paper

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