Point-of-care diagnostic testing in global health: What is the point?: The main goal of such testing is to inform caregivers in ways that lead rapidly to their starting correct treatments for patients

Microbe

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 103-107

  Pai, Madhukar ^a   Ghiasi, Marzieh ^b   Pai, Nitika Pant ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84942308788     PISSN: 15587452     EISSN: 15587460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/microbe.10.103.1     Document Type: Article

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