Point-of-Care Testing for Infectious Diseases: Diversity, Complexity, and Barriers in Low- And Middle-Income Countries
Author(s) -
Nitika Pant Pai,
Caroline Vadnais,
Claudia M. Denkinger,
Nora Engel,
Madhukar Pai
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
plos medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.847
H-Index - 228
eISSN - 1549-1676
pISSN - 1549-1277
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001306
Subject(s) - low and middle income countries , point of care testing , low income , medicine , global health , developing country , diversity (politics) , environmental health , intensive care medicine , public health , economic growth , immunology , socioeconomics , political science , nursing , economics , law
Madhukar Pai and colleagues discuss a framework for envisioning how point-of-care testing can be applied to infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries.
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