A smartphone dongle for diagnosis of infectious diseases at the point of care

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 273, 2015, Pages 273re1-

  Laksanasopin, Tassaneewan ^a   Guo, Tiffany W ^a   Nayak, Samiksha ^a   Sridhara, Archana A ^a   Xie, Shi ^a   Olowookere, Owolabi O ^a   Cadinu, Paolo ^a   Meng, Fanxing ^a   Chee, Natalie H ^a   Kim, Jiyoon ^a   Chin, Curtis D ^a   Munyazesa, Elisaphane ^b   Mugwaneza, Placidie ^c   Rai, Alex J ^d   Mugisha, Veronicah ^b   Castro, Arnold R ^e   Steinmiller, David ^f   Linder, Vincent ^f   Justman, Jessica E ^b   Nsanzimana, Sabin ^c   Sia, Samuel K ^a   more..

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c RWANDA BIOMEDICAL CENTER   (Rwanda)

^d NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^f OPKO Health Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; REAGINIC ANTIBODY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELECTRONICS; ELISA KIT; ENERGY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENERAL DEVICE; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MECHANICS; MICROFLUIDICS; MOBILE PHONE; OPTICS; PATIENT PREFERENCE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; RWANDA; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMARTPHONE; SMARTPHONE DONGLE; SYPHILIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POWER SUPPLY; PROCEDURES;

CELL PHONES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; RWANDA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84922593110     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa0056     Document Type: Article

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