Simple and inexpensive immunoassay-based diagnostic tests

Bioanalytical Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-40

  Päkkilä, Henna ^a   Soukka, Tero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Assay technologies; Immunoassays; Point of care testing; Resource poor settings

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COLORIMETRY; COST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LAB ON A CHIP; LABORATORY TEST; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROPHOTOMETER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79952987365     PISSN: 18672086     EISSN: 18672094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12566-011-0021-6     Document Type: Article

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