Rapid infectious diseases diagnostics using Smartphones

Annals of Translational Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 15, 2015, Pages

  Bates, Matthew ^a,b   Zumla, Alimuddin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Diagnostics; Helminth; HIV; Microscope; Point of care (POC); Polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Smartphone; TB

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015465753     PISSN: 23055839     EISSN: 23055847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2305-5839.2015.07.07     Document Type: Editorial

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